As one of the most well-known PC brands, ThinkPad brought a lot of innovative products in the last two years, such as ultra-thin ThinkPad X1 Carbon and ThinkPad W Series mobile workstations. ThinkPad P50 is ThinkPad’s new mobile workstation, which uses Intel’s first mobile Xeon E3 processor and NVIDIA Quadro M2000M professional graphics card. Today, we will bring ThinkPad P50’s disassembly and upgrade guide.
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Before starting to disassemble, we take a look at the specifications and appearance of the ThinkPad P50.
The laptop using full black carbon fiber body, there are “ThinkPad” and “Lenovo” brand identity on the left and right corners of the back lid, but this generation’s “Lenovo” logo surprisingly small, could see that Lenovo intends to dilute “Lenovo” brand.
It did not use the more avant-garde Intel RealSense camera. As with all high-end ThinkPad products, ThinkPad P50 screen can be flipped up to 180 degrees. The left side of the LCD hinge also has a hard drive status indicator.
On the right side of the body is equipped with two USB 3.0 ports, a mini DP interface, and a headphone/microphone combo port. The left side of the body is equipped with an SD card reader, an expansion card slot, and a smart card reader. On the rear of the body is equipped with two USB 3.0 ports, an RJ45 network port, a Thunderbolt 3 port, an HDMI port, a DC power jack connector.
The bottom of the body comes with a docking station outlet. P50 hit two first times in ThinkPad history: the first time set the IO port in the rear of the body. The first time abandons VGA display port in the workstation.
The laptop weight of 2.562kg, with the AC adapter weight of 3.252kg.
It has FHD and 4K resolution option with IPS technology and does not support touch. In our case, the laptop with an Intel Xeon E3-1505M V5,16GB of memory, 512GB SSD, Nvidia Quadro M2000M (4GB) discrete graphics card.
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1. Removing the battery
Unlock and remove the battery.
2. Removing the service cover
Loosen six screws securing the cover.
Pry up and remove the cover.
3. Upgrade Options
Under the service cover, you will be able to access two RAM slots, two M.2 slots, a 2.5″ HDD bay and a SIM card slot.
Unfortunately, if you add SSD and HDD, you have to order SSD bracket and HDD SATA cable from Lenovo website.
4. Upgrade the SSD
5. Removing the keyboard
Turn over the laptop.
Lift up the keyboard and disconnect the keyboard and backlit keyboard.
You can access two RAM slots, a 3G WWAN, and a wireless card slot.
SSD and bracket modules
WWAN and wireless card NGFF slot
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In this guide, I will disassemble a Lenovo ThinkPad T480 laptop. I will remove the bottom case to upgrade the RAM, SSD, and HDD for my T480.
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Its disassembly method is very simple, just like the ThinkPad T470, you only need to remove the external battery first, and then remove all the screws on the bottom case. Use the guitar pick open the bottom case slowly, and there are many snaps on the back cover to securing the case to the laptop body. Be careful do not to break the snaps.
With the bottom case removed, you can get access to the internal battery, M.2 SSD, RAM, CMOS battery, hard drive, Wi-Fi card, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
Lenovo ThinkPad T480 has two available RAM slots, each supporting up to 16GB of DDR4-2400 memory, which means you can upgrade the RAM to 32GB. The unit we’ve tested comes with one 8GB DDR4-2400 RAM from Samsung.
Amazingly, it is equipped with a 2242 PCIe NVMe 128GB M.2 SSD from Toshiba with a part number of KBG30ZMT128G, Lenovo P/N: 00UP650, SSSOL24702.
The laptop also comes with a 500GB mechanical hard disk; if necessary, you can replace it with a larger capacity hard disk.
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Here’s the internal battery, 11.4V, 24Wh, Lenovo FRU: 01AV489.
Update
Another version of ThinkPad T480 has an M.2 2280 SSD and installed via an adapter. Please see the ThinkPad T480 review here.
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I’m falling back to options for the T480 because of this year’s disaster of a design T490.
On Lenovo web site, I see T480 with two separate drive slots
1. traditional 2.5″ slot for magnetic hard disk or M.2 2280 SSD.
2. M.2 2242 SSD.
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How would I know, if I first buy it with a traditional disk, then replace it later with a M.2 2280 drive, that the adapter cable will be there? Or do I have to source for that cable component separately?