Acer Nitro 16 (AN16-51) review – great display and performance in one place

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To access this laptop’s internals, you have to unscrew a total of 11 Phillips-head screws. After that, you can pop up the bottom panel by carefully raising the plate while holding firmly the two plastic vents on the back.

The battery is an optional 90Wh unit (the default model is a 57Wh variant). To take it out, you have to unplug the connector from the mainboard. The battery isn’t fixed to the base with screws. There is a dedicated socket with soft padding on the inside of the bottom plate that firmly keeps the battery in place. The capacity is enough for 8 hours and 20 minutes of Web browsing or 7 hours and 9 minutes of video playback.

In terms of memory, there are two SODIMM slots for up to 32GB of DDR5-4800MHz RAM. The memory is additionally cooled by a dedicated thermal pad.  As for storage, there are two M.2 PCIe x4 slots, that support Gen 4 SSDs.

The cooling system comprises two fans, and two heat pipes, shared between the CPU and the GPU. There is one more dedicated to the CPU, and two additional ones for the video card. We can also spot four heat sinks and a couple of heat spreaders.

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