Not sure if it matters but I have Libreboot installed. It’s the slot located next to the drive slot.

Also any other upgrade recommendations while I’m at it? I have maxed out the RAM and have an SSD. I am wondering if I should upgrade the WiFi card. I don’t know if there are any limitations there.

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A really poor performing eGPU? You’re supposed to use it for a cellular card. I’m sure you could find a 4g cellular card in mPCIe, but 5g is probably only going to be in the M.2 formfactor.

And absolutely upgrade the wifi card. They make AX wireless cards in the mPCIe formfactor for whatever reason, and they’re a great upgrade over the N cards that they came with. Even AC is a huge step above.

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Do you know if a full sized WiFi card will fit? I’ve already put my x200s back together.

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No it needs to be the half height mini pcie card.

Do they even make full sized cards with AX? The last time I saw those were in the pci days unless you count the wwan card slot on larger machines.

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No it needs to be the half height mini pcie card.

Gotcha. I wasn’t sure after looking in some ThinkPad forum posts about it

Do they even make full sized cards with AX? The last time I saw those were in the pci days unless you count the wwan card slot on larger machines.

I’m not sure if this is full height.

Do you think something like this looks alright?

Just want to make sure I’m not missing out on anything. I haven’t bought a wireless card in a while.

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Don’t use a PCIe 4G/5G card if you care about privacy. That’s giving whatever proprietary firmware is running on the baseband DMA access to your computer.

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