💻 AKIRA Thinkpad! - Part 2 - DIY Custom Painted Lenovo X230 Laptop, HD IPS Panel, SSD, Keyboard, RAM

DIY Painting a laptop?? Thankfully part 2 went much more smoothly than last time!

If you missed part 1 it's here:    • 💻 AKIRA Thinkpad!? DIY Custom Painted...  

This is part 2 of transforming my cheapo stock Lenovo Thinkpad X230 into an AKIRA themed iconic red machine (Kaneda's Bike)

In this final part we implement a really cool mod made by the russian bada$$ Nitrocaster, you can pick up this mod here on his website: https://nitrocaster.me/store/x220-x23... this mod allows you to stuff in a full HD panel into your tiny 12.5" X230, the panel I put in here (LG LP125WF4-SPB1) looks INCREDIBLE!

Also on the dockett is upgrading from 8GB of mismatched blechhh ram, to 16GB of matching ram! We're also tossing in a 240GB MSATA SSD, I threw in a new 500GB SSD for data, and finally a Korean X220 keyboard!

This isn't really a how to or how to do tutorial, but there should be enough info here for you to create your own. You also don't need a crazily expensive UV printer like I have used, you could just get a sticker sheet and produce a very similar result that would probably be a lot cheaper and easier to execute.

If you want to check out my previous laptop painting project the video is here:    • 💻 Painting A Laptop!? DIY Custom Pain...  
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00:00 - Intro
00:31 - Reassembly prep
00:58 - RAM 16GB upgrade
01:20 - Nitrocaster's FHD upgrade
03:14 - Full HD IPS panel upgrade
05:32 - Reassembly + MSATA upgrade
07:21 - X220 Keyboard upgrade (issues!)
11:57 - Build completion
13:57 - Software setup + final thoughts
16:11 - Next time \ outro

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\\ AKIRA (Kaneda's Bike) Thinkpad X230 DIY Custom Painted Laptop \\

👏Here👏we👏go👏again👏

I took a regular Lenovo Thinkpad X230 I bought of eBay for about $100. The laptop was in pretty rough shape but I didn't care because I was essentially going to be refinishing it anyway.

Here are the UPGRADED specs of the system:
Lenovo Thinkpad X230
Intel i5-3320M
16GB RAM
240GB MSATA SSD (OS) and 500GB SSD (DATA)
12.5" FULL HD IPS display

The first thing I wanted to address was the RAM, this came with 8GB of RAM but it was mismatched so I opted to throw some new 16GB modules in there that are matched!

After that it was time to upgrade the panel, I used Nitrocaster's mod (link above) to upgrade the panel to a FULL HD IPS panel, this was a bit tricky to install, but well worth the effort because the difference in panels is night and day. After soldering that to the motherboard, I threw in the new panel, chopped some bits of the corner off and then slapped in all together.

While assembling the motherboard into the casing, I also threw in a MSATA 240GB SSD for the boot (operating system) drive, and also later upgraded the regular SSD to a 500GB for storage.

After putting everything back together I dropped in a brand new keyboard, I should have gone with a Japanese keyboard to fit the theme, but I can't really type in JIS layout (too weird bro), and I found this cool Korean layout for 3$ cheaper than an English one, and it's ANSI to boot! I had a heck of a time installing the keyboard, but after 6 tries I finally got it to work and the computer would finally boot.

After that all I had to do was set up the keyboard using sharpkeys, and it was finally finished!

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