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by kitsunesoba
1666 days ago
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I too have an X1 Nano and it’s a nice machine in a lot of ways — feels well built, light as a feather, looks nice, great matte 16:10 (!!) screen, great keyboard, and the trackpoint is excellent for mousing in space constricted settings (like planes). I too like that its storage can be expanded (though I wish the WWAN slot could be used for a second NVMe SSD, as it can on other machines). The only complaint I have with it is battery life and its propensity for getting warm when doing anything even remotely demanding. I even went with the slower, lower power CPU and its battery life is still middling, and plugging it into an external display is enough to make it fire up its fans. I wish I could swap its CPU out for something more efficient. Tiger Lake is supremely mediocre relative to current Ryzen and M-series offerings. |
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I'm working on that. 2 options: removing the whitelist from the BIOS, or hacking a NVMe firmware to impersonate a whitelisted WWAN (a small boottime delay to answer requests could also be sufficient)
The latter might be easier, as the firmware update seems to have more vulnerabilities. Also NVMe are cheaper in case I mess up and can't reflash with flashrom for a reason or another.
If anyone here works for a storage company and could make a firmware with a given PCI id or a 10 seconds delay before showing up on the bus, please get in touch!
> I wish I could swap its CPU out for something more efficient. Tiger Lake is supremely mediocre relative to current Ryzen and M-series offerings
Same, I want a X12 with an AMD, or a Xeon because even if the latter is a power hog, at least I'll have ECC!