I’ve been meaning to make this for a while, so I finally sat down and walked through my ThinkPad T440p—what I’ve already modded, what I broke (because I was being an ape), and what I’m still planning to do. Mine was a grade B eBay unit, so the bottom clips were already busted and I ended up super-gluing them back on. I also show the internals: I swapped the stock i5-4300M for an i7-4910MQ, dropped in a beefier heatsink from the Nvidia model (cheap eBay find), and I’m planning an even more ridiculous cooling mod by adding another cooler/heat pipe and cutting plastic for airflow. Storage-wise, I’m using a 1TB SSD in a drive caddy where the DVD drive used to be, and I’m planning to populate the 2242 M.2 SATA slot too. Up top, I rant about the T440p’s stock “flat” clickpad: it looks modern, but it’s wildly inaccurate and the buttons feel atrocious—so I replaced it with the newer style touchpad that has real buttons. I also upgraded the trash 1366x768 TN panel to a much nicer 1080p display, and I talk about backlit keyboard plans. On the security/tinkering side, I’ve disconnected the fingerprint reader (I think that whole auth method is awful), and I’m prepping a USB‑C PD trigger mod so I can charge the T440p over USB‑C. Long term, I want this thing to be a secure, portable workstation—OpenBSD, coreboot/libreboot goals, and eventually a ridiculous multi-drive storage beast.