ThinkPad E15: Swollen Battery or Bad Keyboard?
Daniel bought a ThinkPad E15 because he trusted the name. Two years later the arrow keys are dying, the trackpad needs to be slammed to click, and a key popped out of the shell with no liquid anywhere near it. He's asking whether counterfeit or salvaged ThinkPads are real, whether a serial number check actually proves anything, and whether a keyboard swap is a realistic first-timer job. The answer reframes the whole problem: the keyboard faults and the trackpad fault may share a single cause — a swollen lithium battery pushing up from underneath. This episode walks through what Lenovo's…
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