ASUS Vivobook 17 F1704 (X1704) review – it’s comfortable during load and has big 17.3-inch panel

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

For accessing the internals, you need to undo 11 Phillips-head screws. With that out of the way, you can pry the bottom panel with the aid of a plastic tool. One of the top two corners is the best starting point.

Here, we have a 50Wh battery. It’s important to pull out the connector from the main board. Then, you can unscrew the 4 Phillips-head screws that are keeping the unit in place. The battery has enough juice for 7 hours and 9 minutes of either Web browsing or video playback.

This laptop is available with 4 or 8GB of soldered DDR4 RAM. Luckily, there is one SODIMM for memory expansion for up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM in dual-channel mode. Keep in mind that the stick is rated at 3200MHz but it operates at 2666MHz frequency. Storage-wise, there is one M.2 slot for Gen 4 SSDs.

The cooling is really simple. It comprises one fan, one long heat pipe, a single 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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