I really miss the customization that older laptops offered, especially the socketed CPUs. I remember putting a i7-3840QM in my T430 and having it shut down due to overheating every few minutes to the point where I had to install the heat sink from the GPU model. Was fun tinkering around with it and I wish modern laptops had a similar level of hackability.
When I was shopping for that same CPU a couple of years ago for my T530, the cheapest way I found to get one to my door was to buy it already-installed in the bottom-half of a whole 'nother T530 -- with the nVidia upgrade (which I already had).
I thought it was pretty amusing to get the CPU and a complete pile of spare guts for less than the price of the CPU by itself.
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I thought it was pretty amusing to get the CPU and a complete pile of spare guts for less than the price of the CPU by itself.