Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4 2022 Upgrades and Teardown

Please join me as I perform a Ram Memory / SSD upgrade on this Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4 Gaming Laptop with an Nvidia RTX 3080.

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[stevesloan]

when u said about the C shortages at 4:50, its a bit WTF now in 2024.
Such a good 2nd hand mobile workstation if you can find one.

[blockbuster]

Would you have to disconnect the battery before removing old ssd, or can I just remove it. I have a gen 5 by the way.

[eviljav]

Strangely, on my X1 Extreme G4, the NVME had a heatsink and the heatsink itself was in the sleeve.

[TheOxraid]

How do you like the machine? Especially interested about thermals and noise.

[hanjarake_taro]

is the SSD upgrade just replacing by the empty one? do you have do install OS before replacing it?

[susebrunatny]

Hi, I have quite peculiar question regarding speaker grills. How are the grills built? Do they have real holes on the whole grill surface? Or maybe there are holes just over (small) area of speakers and the rest are "blind" holes (not really going through chassis)? I'm asking because I have one old ThinkPad with such partly "blind" speakers grills and they gather dirt really awfully and there is practically no way to clean them up. Right now I'm thinking about buying X1 g4 and I really wouldn't want to run into the same problem. Thank you.

[aquamir]

My motherboard looks the same. Are there two slots for SSDs? I only found one slot on the right side, I can't find anything on the left side under the sheet metal cover. According to the Lenovo manual, there should be a second slot for another SSD, but there is nothing. I'm confused, is that so?