HP EliteBook 860 G10 review – snappy and light office device with all-metal build

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To open this notebook, you need to undo just 5 captive Phillips-head screws. The next step is to pry the bottom panel with a plastic tool, starting from one of the top two corners.

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

The battery is a 51.3Wh unit. You can also get the optional 76Wh variant. To take it out, unplug the connector from the motherboard, and undo the four Phillips-head screws, that are fixing the unit to the chassis. The capacity is enough for 10 hours of Web browsing, or 9 hours and 5 minutes of video playback.

The memory and the SSD are protected by metal shrouds. The two SODIMMs fit up to 64GB of DDR5-4800MHz or 5200MHz RAM in dual-channel mode. Note that the memory stick is rated at 5600MHz but it operates at 5200MHz frequency.

For storage, you can rely on one M.2 slot compatible with 2280 Gen 4 SSDs. There is a small thermal pad placed on top of the NVMe and another one right below the unit. The WWAN slot for optional LTE or 5G connectivity is placed below the fan.

The cooling is modest. It comprises one fan, a heat pipe, one top-mounted 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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