Moving parts from P580 to ThinkPad x230t?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I currently have an IdeaPad P580 which is bulky for commutes and pretty beat up. The screen assembly is bent and there's already a green line down the screen. If I were to pick up a ThinkPad x230t or non tablet at a good price, I should be able to just migrate the CPU, SSD, and RAM over to the new shell right?

 

Both are Core ix-3000M series chips so I would assume I can just swap the included i5-3320M with my current i7-3520M. The 16GB Vengeance memory also shouldn't be a problem I assume.

 

https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/sys/5953946863.html

[gtx1060=value]

7 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I currently have an IdeaPad P580 which is bulky for commutes and pretty beat up. The screen assembly is bent and there's already a green line down the screen. If I were to pick up a ThinkPad x230t or non tablet at a good price, I should be able to just migrate the CPU, SSD, and RAM over to the new shell right?

 

Both are Core ix-3000M series chips so I would assume I can just swap the included i5-3320M with my current i7-3520M. The 16GB Vengeance memory also shouldn't be a problem I assume.

 

https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/sys/5953946863.html

i think the ram might be soldered in for the slightly newer thinkpads - hold on let me check

[ARikozuM]

The drives will move nicely, but I can't speak for the RAM.

 

I'd recommend using Macrium to move the old OS to a backup so that the SSD can be used with the new laptop.

[gtx1060=value]

 

couldn't really tell from the ram and cpu were soldered in or not, someoen else help? @ARikozuM

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, gtx1060=value said:

couldn't really tell from the ram and cpu were soldered in or not, someoen else help? @ARikozuM

I doubt the CPU would move. The RAM should move but it depends on what generation it is. 

[gtx1060=value]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

I doubt the CPU would move. The RAM should move but it depends on what generation it is. 

ram is removable

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

13 minutes ago, gtx1060=value said:

ram is removable

 

Definitive enough, he's using the exact same kit of RAM I have installed right now. I'm mostly using this thing to take notes and programming for school. I guess the difference between a i5-3220m and i7-3520m shouldn't be that bad?

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Definitive enough, he's using the exact same kit of RAM I have installed right now. I'm mostly using this thing to take notes and programming for school. I guess the difference between a i5-3220m and i7-3520m shouldn't be that bad?

I don't look for hyper-threading on laptops, so if the i5 or i7 are hyper-threaded, I wouldn't bother since HT takes a few more watts to push at similar workloads. 

[gtx1060=value]

1 hour ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Definitive enough, he's using the exact same kit of RAM I have installed right now. I'm mostly using this thing to take notes and programming for school. I guess the difference between a i5-3220m and i7-3520m shouldn't be that bad?

you programming? 32 gigs of ram if you can, if you can return the kit of ram, go for 32 - im telling you right now, when you get to sql, mysql, oracle, and start using really really intensive IDE's like webstorm or telerik, you'll appreciate the 32gb of ram, webstorm alone plus any sdk i might be using uses 4-8gb of ram if it's a fairly large project, even more when compiling, same goes for atom.io - 32gb is optimal, but if you plan on ditching the laptop in a year or so, stick with 16

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

12 minutes ago, gtx1060=value said:

you programming? 32 gigs of ram if you can, if you can return the kit of ram, go for 32 - im telling you right now, when you get to sql, mysql, oracle, and start using really really intensive IDE's like webstorm or telerik, you'll appreciate the 32gb of ram, webstorm alone plus any sdk i might be using uses 4-8gb of ram if it's a fairly large project, even more when compiling, same goes for atom.io - 32gb is optimal, but if you plan on ditching the laptop in a year or so, stick with 16

I'm still doing my undergrad in Computing Science. I can't imagine myself doing anything that intensive yet. I have access to Xeon workstations on campus via Remote Desktop if that does come up. As of right now, I'm mostly using IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, Visual Studio, and Eclipse and my current laptop seems to be handling it just fine.  

[gtx1060=value]

4 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I'm still doing my undergrad in Computing Science. I can't imagine myself doing anything that intensive yet. I have access to Xeon workstations on campus via Remote Desktop if that does come up. As of right now, I'm mostly using IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, Visual Studio, and Eclipse and my current laptop seems to be handling it just fine.  

android studio is a bitch when it comes to ram - i literally open it and java sdk and the app itself is using 2gb of ram - add in a full app that my company is developing and all associated files, there goes 8gb of ram

[gtx1060=value]

5 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I'm still doing my undergrad in Computing Science. I can't imagine myself doing anything that intensive yet. I have access to Xeon workstations on campus via Remote Desktop if that does come up. As of right now, I'm mostly using IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, Visual Studio, and Eclipse and my current laptop seems to be handling it just fine.  

intellij is basically webstorm, and once you get into the higher grades of university (im assuming you go to ubc or bcit) it gets really intensive in terms of project size, and if you do co-op they don't give you computers (normally) and you have to build HUGE projects on a dinky 16gb laptop, which isn't optimal - again, still recommend 32 gigs of ram

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On ‎2017‎-‎01‎-‎22 at 7:07 PM, gtx1060=value said:

intellij is basically webstorm, and once you get into the higher grades of university (im assuming you go to ubc or bcit) it gets really intensive in terms of project size, and if you do co-op they don't give you computers (normally) and you have to build HUGE projects on a dinky 16gb laptop, which isn't optimal - again, still recommend 32 gigs of ram

 I'm actually studying at SFU . I don't know if it's my laptop that's just really unstable or if it's just normal when developing on Windows. Two days ago it just bluescreened (something to do with drivers) and continued to bluescreen (unhandled exception) when booting until it did a automatic repair and system restore. Thought that swapping out the OEM HDD for a 850 EVO would've solved it's instability but I'm still a bit unsure whether it's going to be a reliable machine. Not keen on getting a brand new laptop since I would have to further invest in DDR4 when I already sank money on a pretty good DDR3 kit that I would like to keep using.

[jafico1]

Looking at pictures of the motherboard, the CPU on the ThinkPad is soldered, so you won't be able to swap it out with the one from the IdeaPad. The only 12.5" laptop that I can think of that can take 3 series CPUs from Intel is the HP EliteBook 2570p which is almost as good as a ThinkPad in quality, and has a PGA socket for CPU upgrades. 

[gtx1060=value]

1 hour ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

 I'm actually studying at SFU . I don't know if it's my laptop that's just really unstable or if it's just normal when developing on Windows. Two days ago it just bluescreened (something to do with drivers) and continued to bluescreen (unhandled exception) when booting until it did a automatic repair and system restore. Thought that swapping out the OEM HDD for a 850 EVO would've solved it's instability but I'm still a bit unsure whether it's going to be a reliable machine. Not keen on getting a brand new laptop since I would have to further invest in DDR4 when I already sank money on a pretty good DDR3 kit that I would like to keep using.

all i can say about that is update all of your drivers, probably the ssd ones, and then run an antivirus check to see if maybe a virus is sucking up resources - @deXxterlab97 should be able to help you when im not on