[southerntofu]

And yet you find very little information about the actual hardware in recent Lenovos. For example, i had the unpleasant surprise to discover that M.2 2242 in modern Thinkpads only supports wireless cards, and that i had just purchased a rare-to-find (in my area) 2242 SSD for nothing.

Don't even get me started on how ** the hardware is now to open and replace parts, compared to my previous T60. (soldered RAM? really?)

EDIT: I'm not at all claiming other mainstream vendors are any better. I've never found any decent hardware besides old Thinkpads and Macs.

[syshum]

Except you can use PSRef from lenovo and find out most of that info including if the model you bought has soldered memory or not...

[philliphaydon]

E-Key is for wifi cards. B+M-Key are for the old SSD, most slots for nvme are M-Key.

I’m not sure why this is a Lenovo issue…

[tompazourek]

I recently installed a Toshiba RC100 into my T480's WWAN slot. Are the newer models worse in this aspect? The T480 is not the newest, but still pretty modern.