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Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

In order to open the device, you need to undo 7 Torx-head screws. There are two hidden Phillips-head screws beneath the two rubber back feet. You have to unglue them and then you can undo the two screws. After that, you can pry the panel with a plastic tool.

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

The battery is a 75Wh unit. To remove it, pull out the connector from the mainboard. The next step is to undo the six Phillips-head screws that keep it fixed to the chassis. The unit has enough juice for 14 hours and 35 minutes of Web browsing or 11 hours and 7 minutes of video playback. A very good result!

The memory here is soldered and you get up to 16GB of LPDDR5 -4800MHz RAM in dual-channel mode. For storage, there is just one M.2 slot for Gen 4 SSDs. The NVMe is covered by a metal plate that has a thin thermal pad on the inside. The capacity is enough for 14 hours and 35 minutes of Web browsing or 11 hours and 7 minutes of video playback.

The cooling system comprises one fan, a thick heat pipe, one decently sized 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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