How to open Lenovo V15 Gen 3 – disassembly and upgrade options

To access this notebook’s internals, you need to undo a total of 11 Phillips-head screws. Then, pry the bottom panel with a plastic tool, and lift it from the chassis.

2. Remove the battery

Inside, we find a 38Wh battery pack. To take it out, unplug the battery connector, and undo the 4 Phillips-head screws securing the battery to the chassis.

3. Upgrade memory and storage

Here, you get either 4 or 8GB of DDR4 RAM soldered to the motherboard. It can be expanded via a single SODIMM slot. As for storage, you get one M.2 PCIe x4 slot, which works with Gen 4 SSDs. In addition, the models that come with the smaller battery pack also have a 2.5-inch SATA drive bay.

4. Cooling system

Naturally, the cooling comprises a single heat pipe, a heat sink, and a fan.

Check out all Lenovo V15 Gen 3 prices and configurations in our Specs System, or read more in our In-Depth review.

Lenovo V15 Gen 3 in-depth review

Lenovo markets the V15 Gen 3 as a laptop that brings premium performance at an exceptional value. This is not far from the truth, but there are surely some underlying things about it, that we're soon going to find out.When it comes to affordable notebooks, Lenovo is king. It produces everything from IdeaPads, V15, V155, ThinkBook, and so forth. However, the V15 has always been characterized by compromises made in favor of performance.This seems to be the case here, too. The Gen 3 model can be found with Intel's Alder Lake U-series or the Ryzen 5000U Refresh CPUs. The two models differ[...]

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Pros

Comfortable, spill-resistant keyboard
Cool during extreme load
Adequate pricing
No PWM (BOE NT156FHM-N43 (BOE08D5))
Great performance
1x SODIMM + 1x M.2 PCIe x4 Gen 4

Cons

Uncomfortable viewing angles and poor contrast ratio (BOE NT156FHM-N43 (BOE08D5))
It covers only 51% of the sRGB gamut (BOE NT156FHM-N43 (BOE08D5))
No SD card reader