ThinkPads are supposed to be good - well, an E480 passed through my hands. The fan whined and its control was infuriatingly aggressive on-off style, very unlike the 530S with its slooow acceleration and deceleration.
The 530S’s keyboard started malfunctioning at three years age. I replaced it even though it was riveted / melt-studded in - plastic rods poke through the keyboard, their ends melted flat and wide, forming a rivet. Some instruction video told me to cut the rivet ends off with a chisel, but I used a mini drill.
Putting the new part in, the most difficult part was to hold the keyboard pressed in its place with weights on sticks while doing a temporary re-melt of the insufficient rod ends with a soldering iron (I could have skipped that). After that, I covered the re-melted ends with epoxy for near-original strength. The repair was successful.
My 2017 Lenovo Ideapad 530S’s fans whined - I had to modify the case to stop the noise. https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Lenovo-IdeaPad-530S-15/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
ThinkPads are supposed to be good - well, an E480 passed through my hands. The fan whined and its control was infuriatingly aggressive on-off style, very unlike the 530S with its slooow acceleration and deceleration.
The 530S’s keyboard started malfunctioning at three years age. I replaced it even though it was riveted / melt-studded in - plastic rods poke through the keyboard, their ends melted flat and wide, forming a rivet. Some instruction video told me to cut the rivet ends off with a chisel, but I used a mini drill.
Putting the new part in, the most difficult part was to hold the keyboard pressed in its place with weights on sticks while doing a temporary re-melt of the insufficient rod ends with a soldering iron (I could have skipped that). After that, I covered the re-melted ends with epoxy for near-original strength. The repair was successful.