There is a black latch that needs to be released, first. One addition to the video – when disconnecting ribbon cable from finger-print reader (at 14:02), do not pull out the cable as instructed in the video. Here is a nice youtube video by TechSolvers guiding you through opening up X240 and replacing the keyboard. As a compromise I bought UK layout, which is probably the closest one to US layout featuring big ENTER key. However, as I found out, the US layout is featuring small horizontal ENTER key, not a big vertical one as found on my old keyboard. Therefore I wanted the new backlit keyboard to have standard US layout. My old keyboard was one with Slovak layout but I use US layout most of the time so I was constantly looking for the correct buttons to press. Once I was on a shopping spree, besides a new bezel and a touchpad I also bought a new backlit keyboard (again, I did not realize Lenovo removed the illumination light found on every ThinkPad before and started offering backlit keyboards when I bought my X240 – as an extra). Since X240 and X250 share much of the same hardware, it is possible to replace X240 one-piece-of-sheet touchpad with an awesome-with-real-buttons one from X250. series they ditched the frugal shitty touchpad and brought back one with the hardware buttons. Luckily, as I was shopping for a new bezel on eBay, among the search results I noticed a few new touchpads WITH REAL BUTTONS! After a bit of googling and reading I found out that Lenovo in the meantime came to senses and for X250/T450/X1 3rd gen. To my surprise Lenovo refused to replace the bezel (I guess most of you saw that coming). Sadly, after about a year of usage, I suddenly missed even more the sturdiness and build quality of the old R500.
But whenever I took the old R500 off the shelf for some lab work, I realized, how much I miss the old trackpoint with proper left/middle/right buttons instead of that one loud piece of sheet on X240. X240’s sore – trackpadĪfter I got my X240 and turned off touchpad functionality and all the gestures, I thought that it ain’t so bad and I can still use the trackpoint as before.
But I really wanted to ditch the heavy brick and have a small lightweight laptop (wish I had gotten X61 instead of R500) so I went with X240. So when I was about to replace R500 with a new X240 after six years, I was a bit skeptical about the idea to merge the buttons and touchpad into a single touchpad/button thingy. Since I started using ThinkPad R500 in 2008, I immediately felt in love with Lenovo’s trackpoint which I think is the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel (I had had Dell Latitude for four years prior to that and I hated their trackpoint as it was utter sh*t).
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