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@yaroto98@lemmy.world

2026-09-23 15:06 UTC

Everyone is saying lenovo, and while I don’t disagree, I really wish my T480 had a nicer bottom clamshell. If you want to swap a drive or ram you have to take the whole bottom off. Cue tiny plastic clips breaking. I’ve seen decent laptops with the cutouts and a single screw on the bottom for swapping ssds and ram. Those are awesome. Lenovo should do that. I say this because I like to distro hop on my laptop. I wish I could keep a drive with a linux OS that I like and have setup, but then swap out blank drives for distro hopping, play around, and go back if I want. But the bottom prevents me from doing it easily.

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  • @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2026-09-23 18:27

    Older ThinkPads have that, my T440p has three drives, one easily swappable where the DVD was and one NVMe in the WWAN slot (actually the fastest), great for hopping. For the T480 you can do the WWAN NVMe trick, or use an external TB3 drive (enclosure maybe), which is fast enough to play around.

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