HP ZBook Firefly 14 G10 review – small and light laptop with color-accurate display

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

If you want to have a sneak peek at the internals, you have to undo 5 captive Phillips-head screws. Then, you can pry the bottom panel, starting from the back.

You can have a look at the inside of the bottom panel.

The battery is a 51Wh model. To take it out, detach the connector from the motherboard, and undo the four Phillips-head screws that are keeping the unit in place. The capacity is enough for 16 hours and 40 minutes of Web browsing or 10 hours of video playback. That’s a very good result!

The two SODIMMs are covered by a metal shroud. The maximum possible capacity is 64GB of DDR5-5200MHz or 4800MHz memory in dual-channel mode. Note that the RAM sticks are rated at 5600MHz but they operate at 5200MHz clock.

Storage-wise, there is just one M.2 slot for 2280 Gen 4 SSDs. Beneath the preinstalled NVMe, there is a small thermal pad.

The cooling system looks unpretentious. It comprises a single fan, a duo of heat pipes, one heat sink, and two heat spreaders.

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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