Acer Nitro 16 (AN16-72) Review – Surprises With Hidden Gems for Gamers and Designers

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To have a sneak peek at the internals, you have to unscrew 11 Phillips-head screws. After that, you can easily pop up the backside by carefully lifting it while holding firmly the two plastic exhausts. Don’t push too hard because you can break the plate close to the LAN connector. Use a thin plastic tool to pry the left side, the bottom, and the zones around the Ethernet port.

The battery isn’t fixed to the base with screws because there is a dedicated socket for it with soft padding on the inside of the bottom panel that fixes the unit to the chassis.

The battery here is a 90.61Wh variant. To take it out, detach the connector from the mainboard and lift it away from the chassis. The capacity is enough for 7 hours and 9 minutes of Web browsing or 5 hours and 53 minutes of video playback.

Memory-wise, there are two SODIMMs for up to 32GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM in dual-channel mode. It’s nice to see that the memory modules are additionally cooled by a dedicated thermal pad for each stick.

For storage, there are two M.2 slots for 2280 Gen 4 SSDs. Our laptop has a pair of 2TB NVMes that work in RAID 0 and they are crazy fast in this mode.

The cooling seems potent. It has two fans and a duo of heat pipes shared between the processor and the video card. There is another pipe for the CPU and two more dedicated to the GPU. We can also spot two large metal plates and four heat sinks.

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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