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My X61 got dropped and I broke all the plastics in one corner.

I have an X60 that I don't use much.

The plastics appear to be identical. I can probably move my X61 Planar into the X60 body.

The question is the WLAN card. I have a Verizon enabled Sierra 5275 card in the X61. The antenna on the X60 is set up for a Sierra 5270.

Will the 5270 antenna work with the 5275 WLAN card? Or do I need to do an antenna swap as well?

Thanks for any assistance. If this has been answered before, please point me to the thread. Didn't find anything in Search.

If you can, swap the lid from the X61 onto the X60.
Otherwise you may need to swap/install the extra antenna.
The rest should fit.

The lid plastic broke from the fall as well. I guess I can swap the WWAN antennas; they are in the same place.

Thanks RBS.

Still trying to fix my X61...

I scored another X61 (7674-vxv). It was supposed to be dead, but appears to be working. It has a faster processor of a newer vintage (T8100) and an 802.11n WiFi. I want to import my WWAN from the old box, but the new Planar doesn't seem to have the connection for the supplemental fan (just a pad array on the Planar).

How important is the supplemental fan with WWAN?