Lenovo ThinkPad New X1 Carbon Disassembly

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon to remove the keyboard, cooling fan, palm rest, wireless card, bottom case, SSD, and motherboard.

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Remove all screws from the bottom case.

Use a pry tool to slowly pry open the bottom cover. There are many clips on the bottom cover; please do not break them.

Here’s the bottom cover.

Under the bottom case, you can access the battery, speakers, SSD, wireless card, heat sink, cooling fan, USB board, and motherboard.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon comes with a 14.8V, 45Wh Li-polymer battery. The part numbers are 45N1782 and 45N1783.

Remove all screws securing the battery.
Disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard. You can remove the battery.

Close-up of the battery.

Under the battery, you can access the touchpad.

Remove the screw securing the wireless network card.
Disconnect the two antenna cables.

Close-up of the wireless network card.

The laptop features an Intel Wireless-N 7260 wireless card, the model is 7260NGW, which supports 802.11n, 2×2, 2.4-GHz Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.0.
Lenovo part number: 04X6009.

Remove the screw securing the SSD. You can remove the SSD.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon features a Samsung 512GB MZ-NTD5120/0L1 M.2 NGFF SSD, Lenovo part number: 04X4405.

The USB board is connected to the motherboard via a black cable.

Close-up of the touchpad cable.

Disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard.

Loosen four screws securing the heat sink.

The heat sink and cooling fan assembly.

Remove all screws securing the motherboard.
Disconnect all cables connecting to the motherboard.

The right speaker.

The left speaker.

Close-up of the Intel processor.

The RAM chips were soldered to the motherboard.

On the back of the motherboard, you can access the CMOS battery.

When the motherboard is removed, you can remove and replace the keyboard.

Close-up of all removed parts.