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日本How to open Dynabook Portege X30L-K – disassembly and upgrade options
Unfortunately, the memory here is soldered to the motherboard. This is not great for a business machine. However, given its incredible portability, it can be forgiven.
Check out all Dynabook Portege X30L-K prices and configurations in our Specs System, or read more in our In-Depth review.
1. Remove the bottom plate
To access this notebook’s internals you need to undo a total of 12 Phillips-head screws. Then, pry the bottom panel with a plastic tool, and lift it away from the chassis.
2. Remove the battery
Here, the battery has a capacity of 53Wh. To take it out, unplug the battery connector, and undo the two Phillips-head screws holding the battery to the chassis.
3. Upgrade memory and storage
The memory is soldered to the motherboard. You can get up to 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM, working at 4800MHz. As far as storage, there is one M.2 PCIe x4 slot, which supports both Gen 3 and Gen 4 drives.
4. Cooling system
Lastly, the cooling comprises two heat pipes, a heat sink, and a fan.
Check out all Dynabook Portege X30L-K prices and configurations in our Specs System, or read more in our In-Depth review.
Dynabook Portege X30L-K in-depth review
After falling into despair, Toshiba now lives through a resurgence by the name of Dynabook. Its business notebooks are better than ever, and tackle the monsters of the branch - ThinkPad and Latitude by Lenovo and Dell, respectively.Its Portege series feature really light notebooks with a surprising feature package, and pretty powerful hardware. In particular, the Portege X30L-K can be found with Alder Lake P-series CPUs.It is sort of a questionable choice because the laptop is really portable. You will see what we mean in a minute. Before that, we can take a look at the specs sheet. I[...]
Pros
- Incredibly light magnesium chassis
- 98% sRGB coverage and super accurate colors with our Gaming and Web design profile (Sharp LQ133M1JW41 (SHP14B8))
- No aggressive PWM (Sharp LQ133M1JW41 (SHP14B8))
- Fantastic battery life
- LAN port and a MicroSD card slot
- Very comfortable spill-resistant keyboard
- 2x Thunderbolt 4 + Gen 4 SSD support
- IR face recognition + fingerprint reader
Cons
- Performance deteriorates in long runs
- Soldered memory
