Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 8 review – premium business transformer

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

If you want to open this device, you have to undo just 5 captive Phillips-head screws. Then you can pry the bottom plate with a plastic tool starting from one of the top two corners.

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

The battery is a 57Wh unit. To take it out, undo the 6 Phillips-head screws that are fixing it to the base. The connector is built into the unit so it’s important to wear gloves to prevent short circuits. The capacity is enough for 8 hours and 20 minutes of Web browsing, or 7 hours and 9 minutes of video playback. Our laptop is equipped with the optional 4K OLED display so the battery life seems good.

The memory is soldered but you get up to 64GB of LPDDR5x-6000MHz RAM. The same memory clock applies to the 32GB configurations while the devices with 16GB come with 6400MHz memory frequency. Actually, the RAM is rated at 7500MHz for all devices but it works at a lower clock due to platform limitations. For storage, you can rely on a single M.2 slot compatible with 2280 Gen 4 SSDs. It’s covered by a metal plate that has a thermal pad on the inside. There is another cooling pad on the motherboard right below the NVMe. Next to the left side of the cooling is positioned the WWAN slot for optional 4G or 5G connectivity. As you can see, there is one more thermal pad in front of the slot.

The cooling is modest. It has two small fans, one thick heat pipe, a heat sink, and a heat spreader.

Author: Nikolay Palaozov

Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.

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