HP EliteBook 865 G10 review – All-Metal Business Powerhouse with Quiet Performance

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To open this laptop, you have to undo just 5 captive Phillips-head screws. Then, pry the bottom panel with a lever tool in the zone behind the hinge cover. The last step is to work your way around the sides and the front.

There is a decently-sized thermal pad on the inside of the metal bottom plate for cooling the Wi-Fi card.

This laptop has the base 51.3Wh battery variant. You can also opt for the optional 76Wh model. To take it out, detach the connector from the mainboard, and undo the four Phillips-head screws, that fix the unit to the chassis. The capacity is enough for around 11 hours of either Web browsing or video playback.

The memory section is protected by a metal shroud. According to HP, the two slots fit up to 64GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM in dual-channel mode. However, since the CPU can support up to 256GB, this laptop likely wouldn’t have issues running a larger amount of memory than the official manufacturer’s specified limit.

The WWAN slot on the left is for optional LTE or 5G connectivity. Storage-wise, you get just one M.2 slot for 2280 Gen 4 SSDs. There is a cooling pad on top of the SSD. We found a small thermal pad for additional cooling below the NVMe.

The cooling looks simple but it’s fine for a laptop without a dedicated GPU. It has 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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