The Lenovo ThinkPad X270 was unveiled at CES earlier this year. It not only inherits many iconic design concepts from the ThinkPad series but also introduces innovations based on the original design, enabling this laptop to provide a superior experience and meet the needs of business professionals.
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Unlock and remove the battery.
Remove the 8 screws securing the bottom cover to the laptop.
Pry up the bottom cover from the corner of the laptop and slowly release all the clips. Then, you can remove the bottom cover.
After removing the bottom cover, you can access the internal battery, RAM, SSD, Wi-Fi card, HDD, speakers, cooling fan module, and motherboard.
The Seagate 1TB hard drive is located in the lower left corner, while the ThinkPad X270 features a dual-drive configuration: a 128GB SSD and a 1TB mechanical hard drive.
Close-up of the HDD cable
This is a 1930mAh lithium battery manufactured by Sanyo Energy. Its output voltage is 11.1V, and its power is 24Wh.
The Lenovo ThinkPad X270 only has one memory slot. If you need to upgrade the memory, replace it with a higher-capacity memory module.
The laptop comes with an SK Hynix 8GB DDR4-2400MHz RAM module.
The SSD and the wireless network card are installed on the left side of the motherboard, and the speakers are next to the SSD slot.
The laptop comes with a LITE-ON CV1-SB128 128GB SATA3 M.2 SSD with Lenovo part number 00JT094.
Intel Wireless-AC 8265NGW Wi-Fi Card with Bluetooth 4.2
Disconnect the speaker cable from the motherboard.
It is worth noting that the speaker cable is located below the motherboard, so you must first remove the screws securing the motherboard when disconnecting the cable.
Close-up of the speakers
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 motherboard
The back of the motherboard is covered with a black protective film.
The left and right sides of the motherboard are respectively welded with many ports, including an RJ45 jack, an SD card reader, a SIM card slot, a USB 3.0 port, a headset/microphone jack, a USB Type-C (Thunderbolt 3) port, an HDMI port, and a USB 3.0 port.
After removing the protective film on the back of the motherboard, you can see some control chips, and the most notable are two ThinkEngine chips. The main purpose of the chip is to convert the power supply for the entire laptop.
The Intel Core i7-7500 processor is directly soldered onto the motherboard. The surface of the chip is covered with a protective film; once the protective film is removed, the chip model code can be seen.
Intel Core i7-7500 processor
This cooling system features a single heat pipe and a single turbo fan design. Its heat pipe is made of copper to ensure efficient heat dissipation and is equipped with an AVC 5V, 0.5A turbo fan.
After removing the motherboards, battery, and mechanical hard drives, all that remains is the screen, keyboard, touchpad, and fingerprint reader. The white plastic plate behind the laptop keyboard is the spacer used to secure the motherboard.
ThinkPad X270 palm rest and keyboard
After removing the screw securing the LCD hinges, it is easy to separate the screen and the palm rest.
Here is the ThinkPad X270 keyboard, which is available in our laptop parts store.
Remove the screws securing the touchpad and fingerprint module, then remove the touchpad and fingerprint module.
Hello, I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad x270 with 8GB RAM, but I’m wondering if this model has soldered memory and one slot. I have never heard of a computer running memory in a single channel. So, if I get 16GB RAM, will that also run in a single channel?
Thanks
This model doesn’t seem to have onboard memory, so it only supports single-channel memory.