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a larger hardware fix for the x200/x201 is the x2100 upgrade (intel comet lake motherboard, nvme, up to 64gb ddr4, 13" 3000x2000 ips panel).

see https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/ for an overview, although sadly the availability is diminishing (and the hardware is far from bleeding edge four years later) -- the above linked vendor is awol.

i've got myself 2.5 x2100s, hoping that will tide me over until something new becomes available.

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Buying a new motherboard to replace the Thinkpad is hardly a fix. Otherwise I could 'fix' my Thinkpad x200 by buying a x230. You could make a case for the ship of Theseus but it's more like you are taking off the captains wheel and replacing the whole thing and calling it the same ship.

I never got the appeal of those laptops either. It's not a Thinkpad, its an Chinese motherboard that is overpriced to get it working with a nice keyboard, and yet you'll still have to bend your neck to use it unless you're using the dock.

I was going to say you'd also lose out on the Libreboot compatibility, but apparently X201 support was urgently removed from LB: https://libreboot.org/news/x201.html

even though i have the x2100 as a 'fix for x201', which would make sense in the context of the original post, for me it was just a new laptop purchase, and i have considered the x2100 on its own merits as a laptop i could get -- for me it was decent (i.e. non-chiclet) keyboard, trackpoint, good screen, and autonomy (plenty of disk, ram and battery).

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