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Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

If you want to open this console, you have to undo six Phillips-head screws. Then, you can use a plastic tool to pry the bottom, and then you can work your way around the sides and the front.

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

As you can see, around the plastic shroud, there are a lot of wires and we have to disconnect most of them. As always, the first thing to do is to detach the battery connector. Three antenna connectors are placed around the SSD and one of them is hidden below the drive. Remove the NVMe to safely disconnect the three wires. The next step is to unplug three connectors, one beneath the battery and two on the left of the cooling.

Now, we have to unscrew 5 Philips-head screws. One for each plastic bumper in the top two corners and three above the battery. You can use a plastic lever to pop the bumpers and the shroud.

With that out of the way, you can undo the two Philips-head screws on the left of the fan. Detach the fan connector and you can lift it away from the chassis. Last but not least, let’s undo the pair of screws on the right which are holding the large metal plate in place. You also have to remove the central screw, but we already did that.

To remove the cooling system, carefully raise it while holding the heat sink on the left.

Now we have a clear view of the PCB, the SoC, and the memory chips. Of course, they are soldered.

The battery is held in place by two pull tabs but we aren’t going to pull them out. The 49.2Wh capacity is enough for 5 hours and 16 minutes of Web browsing or 4 hours and 46 minutes of video playback.

You get 16GB of LPDDR5x-7500MHz RAM.

For storage, you can rely on a single M.2 slot for 2242 Gen 4 SSDs.

The cooling has a single fan, one heat sink, a heat pipe, and a large heat spreader.

That’s the back side of the thermal system.

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