Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 4 review – sleek, thin, and snappy
Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance
The opening process is easy. You have to undo only 5 captive Phillips-head screws and then you can begin to pry the bottom panel with a plastic tool starting from one of the top two corners.
This is how the bottom plate looks on the inside.
The battery is a 57Wh model. Unplug the connector before taking it out. The next step is to undo the 4 Phillips-head screws that are fixing the unit to the chassis. The modest capacity is enough for 11 hours and 7 minutes of Web browsing, or 8 hours and 20 minutes of video playback. A good result!
The memory is soldered and you can find this laptop with either 16 or 32GB of LPDDR5x-4800MHz RAM. The WWAN and the M.2 slots are placed next to each other. The single SSD slot is compatible with 2280 Gen 4 NVMes. The preinstalled NVMe is well-cooled because it’s protected by a metal plate that has a cooling pad on the inside. There is another thermal pad on the mainboard right below the SSD.
The cooling seems rather basic – one fan, a single heat pipe, one heat sink, and a heat spreader.