Lenovo ThinkBook 13x Gen 2 review – portability is king

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

There are 9 Torx-head screws that stand between you and this laptop’s internals. After you undo them, pry the bottom panel with a plastic tool and remove it from the chassis. Be careful with the wireless charging ribbon cable.

Inside, we find a 56Wh battery. It got us through 6 hours and 30 minutes of Web browsing, or 9 hours of video playback. Should you want to remove it, unplug the connector from the motherboard and undo the 5 Phillips-head screws holding the battery to the chassis?

As you can imagine, the memory is soldered to the motherboard. You can pick from configurations of 8, 16, and 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM. Respectively, the storage comprises one M.2 PCIe x4 slot, which fits Gen 4 SSDs.

For cooling, we see two heat pipes, two heat sinks, and two fans with very small profiles. Thankfully, the VRMs are being cooled by a heat spreader.

Author: Alex Iliev

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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