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.
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.
Do you know if a full sized WiFi card will fit? I've already put my x200s back together.
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.
Gotcha. I wasn't sure after looking in some ThinkPad forum posts about it
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.
the m.2 card won't fit but there's a mini pcie version of the ax210 (best performing wifi card rn). Search for the ax210hmw
Thank you for the recommendation. I just placed an order for one.
https://leminal.space/pictrs/image/2bfa8998-8265-409b-a0e9-8bf4b246f7aa.jpeg
That's an M.2 card and won't work without some sort of adapter. I don't think any adapter would physically fit.
https://leminal.space/pictrs/image/5a4f7a4b-e63f-4383-8ddc-416bc5c2dc91.jpeg
The actual card in that picture is the half height one you'd need. The bracket makes it full height.
Makes sense. Do you think card pictured below would be alright spec-wise?
I found that card looking online and it appears to be an intel chipset on an mPCIe board. Assuming it's legit and works right then that should work perfectly. Assuming.
Original comment that's only slightly relevant.
It's AX and it should work but I'm not sure what chipset it uses. I'd generally only ever stick to Intel wireless cards. I've had experience with a number of 6e cards from other brands and nothing comes close to a proper Intel card. My laptops all have the AX201 and x210 cards, but they all have M.2 slots.
Thank you for all your help. I placed an order for a AX210 HMW.
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.