HP Pavilion 15 (15-eh3000) review – decent daily driver at a pleasant price

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To get inside this notebook, you need to undo six Phillips-head screws. Two of them are visible while the other four are hidden. You have to unglue the two rubber feet to gain access to the other four screws.  After that, pry the bottom panel, starting from the back.

Here’s how the bottom plate looks on the inside.

The battery is a 41Wh model. The connector is built into the unit so if you want to remove it you have to wear gloves to avoid short circuits. The next step is to undo the six Phillips-head screws that are keeping the unit fixed to the chassis. The battery lasts for 8 hours and 20 minutes of Web browsing or 6 hours and 40 minutes of video playback. Given the small capacity, the result is good.

The two SODIMM slots can handle up to 16GB of DDR4-3200 MHz RAM in dual-channel mode.

As for storage, there is just one M.2 PCIe x4 slot that supports Gen 4 SSDs. There is a thin thermal pad below the preinstalled NVMe. The speed of the SSD is limited to Gen 3 values.

The cooling system comprises one fan, two long heat pipes, one large heat sink, and a heat spreader.

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