On September 20th, Lenovo officially released two high-performance portable laptops – ThinkPad X1 extreme and ThinkPad P1.
The ThinkPad X1 extreme uses the 8th-generation Intel Core i7 standard voltage processor and the NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti graphics card.
It supports up to 64GB dual-channel memory and PCle NVMe high-speed M.2 SSD. Compared to the ThinkPad x1 Carbon, this laptop is more focused on performance and efficiency.
The laptop body is made of aviation-grade carbon fiber, which reduces the weight to 1.7kg. At the same time, to meet various working scenarios, ThinkPad X1 has a very rich port and supports fast charging.
In this guide, I will remove the ThinkPad X1 Extreme bottom case to access the battery, M.2 SSD, RAM, CMOS battery, cooling fan, heatsink, hard drive, Wi-Fi card, and motherboard.
First, we need to remove all the screws that secure the bottom case, then slowly remove it. After removing the bottom case, you can see its internal components, including the battery, RAM, M.2 SSD, CMOS battery, Wi-Fi card, speaker, heatsink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
On the right, there are two M.2 2280 SSD slots. In my case, it only comes with a Samsung MZVLB512HAJQ-000L7 PM981 PCIe 3.0*4 SSD and supports the NVMe protocol.
Just below the cooling system are two RAM slots, both of which are covered with black shielding paster. This laptop only has 16GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM. According to official information, it supports up to 64GB RAM.
At the bottom is a 15.36V, 80Wh, 5235mAh lithium battery. Lenovo’s part number is L17C4P72, and the FRU is 01AY969. Above the battery is a CMOS battery with an FRU of 04X0443.
The Wi-Fi card is at the left of the fuselage. In my case, it comes with an Intel Wireless-AC 9560 adapter that supports 2×2 802.11ac and Bluetooth 5.0.
The upper part of the fuselage is the cooling system, which consists of dual fans and double copper tubes. It covers the Intel Core i7 8750H processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q graphics card chip.
As a flagship product, ThinkPad X1 Extreme uses metal plates to reinforce all important ports, which is common in high-end notebooks.
We use AS SSD software to test the M.2 SSD. It reads speed of 2371M/S, a writes speed of 1857M/S, and has a composite score of 4488.
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