Lenovo Legion Slim 7i / S7 (16″ Intel, Gen 8) review – surprisingly powerful thin gaming laptop

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

For removing the bottom panel, you have to undo 8 Phillips-head screws. Then, you can pry the plate with a plastic tool.

The bottom plate has two cooling pads on the inside for cooling the SSDs which is a nice touch.

The battery is a huge 99.9Wh model. It’s very important to detach the battery connector from the motherboard. In order to take out the battery, you have to undo the 6 Phillips-head screws that are keeping the unit in place. The model has enough juice for 9 hours and 5 minutes of Web browsing or 7 hours and 9 minutes of video playback. Given the thirsty hardware and the high-resolution display of this machine, the result is good.

The memory area is covered with a metal shroud that has a thin thermal pad on the inside for enhancing the cooling in this zone. In terms of memory, 16GB of RAM is soldered to the motherboard but luckily, there is one SODIMM for future upgrades that can take up to 16GB DDR5-5200MHz memory. So, the maximum possible amount of RAM is 32GB. The installed memory is a 5600MHz stick but it works at 5200MHz due to processor limitations. For storage, there are two M.2 slots compatible with Gen. 4 SSDs. The preinstalled NVMe has a Lenovo sticker on the screw but it’s fairly easy to remove it safely. Just pull it gently.

The cooling solution looks good for a thin gaming laptop. It has two fans and three thick heat pipes. The upper two are shared for CPU and GPU cooling while the third one is dedicated to the graphics memory and VRMs.

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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