Unless the antennas are glued (annoying but can be worked around with a heatgun), your BIOS device locks your wifi card (like Lenovo did with some of their laptops), or you accidentally get a CRF module that can only be used in compatible Intel devices, most laptops use a standard sized M.2 E key or miniPCIe network card that are totally interchangeable. Intel AX200/AX210s are dirt cheap (like $10-20) and done immediate replacements in my past 3 laptops.

> Are you saying the intel WiFi chip is pin compatible with the Realtek? That’s an amazing find.

I thought that most laptops have the WiFi on a mini-PCI card these days (or really anything in the past 10 years) unless they are really trying for the ultra-slim, solder everything down look.

The slots are usually Mini PCIe (if not M2).

8C/16T is probably Ryzen 5800 unless mobile uses a really confusing numbering scheme relative to desktop.

5900hx

# of CPU Cores 8 # of Threads 16 Default TDP 45+W

AMD really knocked it out the park with zen3

Oh, ok. Yeah, file that under "unless mobile uses a really confusing numbering scheme relative to desktop." On desktop, 5800x is 8C/16T and 5900x is 12C/24T.