FOUND: X220 palm rest with mSATA, with or without FPR

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#1 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:15 am

WTB: decent X220 Palmrest, one of these:

04W2189 Palm rest assembly with fingerprint reader and mSATA
04W2146 Palm rest assembly without fingerprint reader, with mSATA

Please PM offers incl. shipping to PA 18436
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#2 Post by **erik** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 9:33 am

What's special about the mSATA version? I have mSATA SSDs in three X220s and all are the "non" mSATA palmrests. The drives fit fine.

#3 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 10:40 am

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comme ... t_can_you/
Mine is a 4291, hence the mSATA request.
I can't find any mSATA palmrest pictures anywhere, so I thought I'd ask here.
Can't tell you the difference either...
But some palmrests have aluminum shielding inside and others have not, could it be that?

After a long search I found the exact same one that I have: http://www.ebay.com/itm/201522521252
That is: every label on that palmrest is identical to mine.

According to the Lenovo partslist mine has a 04X3780 Dasher-1FRU Palmrest ASM w/o FP which doesn't even seem to exist...

Guess I need to do a bit more time-wasting...

Cigarguy · #4 Post by **Cigarguy** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 12:19 pm

Hmmm....interesting. I got a X220 with mSATA. Never thought a special palm rest existed.

#5 Post by **erik** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 3:57 pm

RealBlackStuff wrote:But some palmrests have aluminum shielding inside and others have not, could it be that?

Doubt it. I just replaced my father's X220 palmrest and both the old and new have aluminum shielding just like that. FRU number on the new one is 04X3779 and manufactured 09/2014. Not sure of the old FRU but I can check.

Both have aluminum and miles of space for mSATA drives to fit. I've personally not heard of an X220 that can't go mSATA because of the palmrest so maybe all of them share the same plastic mold.

czpath2 · #6 Post by **czpath2** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 7:55 pm

Based on this:
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/migr-77191 (parts 23, 26)
and the HMM (parts 6, 23)
(ignoring the fact they are showing two different sets of FRUs)
It looks like "and mSATA" edition was only used/needed? in machines that shipped with 80GB mSATA as original equipment.

FOUND: X220 palm rest with mSATA, with or without FPR

FOUND: X220 palm rest with mSATA, with or without FPR

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