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Lenovo ThinkPad X270 Disassembly and RAM, SSD and HDD upgrade options

Lenovo ThinkPad X270 was released at the CES show held earlier this year; it inherited the ThinkPad’s many iconic designs and concepts but also found changes in the original basis, making the notebook provide a better experience to meet the needs of today’s business people.

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Lenovo ThinkPad X270

Unlock and remove the battery.
Remove 8 screws securing the bottom case to the laptop.
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 bottom

Pry up the bottom case from the corner of the notebook, and then slowly release all the snaps. You can remove the bottom case.
remove bottom case

After removing the bottom case, you can get access to the internal battery, RAM, SSD, Wi-Fi card, HDD, speaker, cooling fan module, and motherboard.
remove Lenovo ThinkPad X270 internal picture

In the lower left corner is Seagate’s 1TB hard disk, while the ThinkPad X270 uses dual hard disk designs, which are 128G SSD and 1TB mechanical hard drive.
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 hard drive

HDD’s SATA cable
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 SATA cable

This is a built-in lithium battery, which is a 1930mAh lithium battery manufactured by Sanyo Energy with an output voltage of 11.1V and a power of 24Wh.
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 internal battery

Lenovo ThinkPad X270 only has one memory slot. If you need to upgrade the memory, you only need to replace it with a larger memory.
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 RAM

Lenovo ThinkPad X270 RAM slot

SK Hynix 8GB DDR4-2400MHz RAM
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 RAM

On the left side of the laptop motherboard, the SSD and the wireless network card are installed, and we see that the speakers are next to the SSD slot.
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 SSD and Wi-Fi

LITE-ON CV1-SB128 128GB SATA3 M.2 SSD, Lenovo P/N: 00JT094.
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 SSD

Intel Wireless-AC 8265NGW NGFF Dual Band 802.11AC 867Mbps MU-MIMO Wi-Fi Card with BT 4.2
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 Wi-Fi

Disconnect the speaker cable from the motherboard.
It is worth noting that the speaker cable is located below the motherboard, so it is necessary to disassemble the fixed screws of the main board first when disconnecting the cable.
remove speaker

remove speaker

Its speaker uses an oval-shaped diaphragm sounding unit, the sound source reflection of the vocal mode.
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 speaker

Lenovo ThinkPad X270 motherboard
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 motherboard

The back of the motherboard is covered with a black protective film.
Lenovo ThinkPad X270 motherboard

Lenovo ThinkPad X270 motherboard

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David Tian

David is the editor @ MyFixGuide. He loves technology, especially good at laptops and mobile phones. In his free time, he loves to take apart the latest mobile phones and laptops.

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2 Comments

  1. 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 don’t ever hear of a computer running memory in a single channel. So if I get 16GB RAM, will that also run in a single channel?
    Thanks

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