X210Ai Info & Review Thread

[astral]

Only other note after over a month of daily driving the X210Ai is that the headphone jacks they used are clearly a weak design. Headphone jack is already loose and requires me to hold it a certain way or I lose one channel. I did accidentally jostle it a bit maybe twice, but not hard enough for me to expect the jack to fail. (for reference, I've never broken a laptop's headphone jack in my life).
I'm not too concerned about this though, as I could probably fix or replace the jack myself if it were to fully fail.

Issue got worse, opened it up to investigate, yikes. Headphone jack is surface-mounted to the board with no reinforcement, no through-hole anchoring pin, just six SMD pads. Said pads were all lifting off the board... toast. Definitely not something that should happen in a month of use and one or two minor bumps. I would highly recommend that anyone with an X210Ai immediately reinforce the headphone jacks with epoxy to make it so that all the strain is no longer being put on those pads. I'll certainly be doing so myself if/when I can get a new daughtercard sent. This is a pretty major issue because when the jack fails, the internal speakers also don't work because it thinks it has headphones plugged in.

[shrimpboyho2]

Can anyone confirm if thunderbolt multi-monitor support is working on Windows or Linux?

On Fedora 43, I am able to connect and the system recognizes my Thinkpad Thunderbolt 4 Dock, but only the peripheral usb ports work. None of the dedicated display ports (2 DP, 1 HDMI) seem to function. However, when I connect a display to the downstream TB port on the dock with a thunderbolt-displayport cable, that seems to work...

[balcanquhal]

It's not working for me on Linux. I plugged it into such a dock in the office and only one display worked. I'm using Debian Trixie with Gnome Shell, so pretty recent.

[shrimpboyho2]

It's not working for me on Linux. I plugged it into such a dock in the office and only one display worked. I'm using Debian Trixie with Gnome Shell, so pretty recent.

Yeah, I did some further testing and it seems only one monitor works through the dedicated TB4 port. The other USB-C port does support multiple displays out, but you are limited by the low bandwidth since it is not thunderbolt. Hopefully a firmware update can be pushed to resolve this issue.