Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 (14 AMD, Gen 8) review – good budget daily driver with some downsides

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

In order to pop up the bottom plate, you have to unscrew 9 Phillips-head screws. Then, you can pry the bottom panel with a plastic pry tool. One of the top two corners is the best starting point.

The battery is a 47Wh model. It’s important to detach the battery connector from the mainboard. In order to take out the battery, you have to unscrew the 2 Phillips-head screws that are fixing the battery to the base. The capacity is enough for 11 hours and 7 minutes of Web browsing, or 9 hours and 5 minutes of video playback.

Storage-wise, there is a single M.2 slot compatible with Gen. 4 (2242) SSDs. Due to AMD platform limitations, the slot is downgraded to Gen 3 speeds. The NVMe has a thermal pad from below. Here, we have soldered RAM and the maximum capacity is 16GB of DDR4 3200MHz in dual-channel. The memory of the devices with 4GB and 8GB of RAM is working in single-channel mode.

The preinstalled SSD has a thermal pad from below.

The cooling solution is simple. It has just one fan and one heat pipe.

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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PHVM

2 years ago

A unique phenomenon occurs in this site’s CPU tests.
Lately the same processors have achieved exactly same results in the multicore benchmarks.
Impressive!

Last edited 2 years ago by PHVM

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