Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 4 (Intel) review – transformer with color-accurate display and near-silent cooling fan

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To get inside this device, you have to undo 8 captive Phillips-head screws. Then, pry the bottom panel with a thin plastic tool starting from the back. You can also remove the pen from its housing but it’s not necessary. You don’t have to pry the front side, just tilt the panel until you hear a slight click sound and then you can lift away the plate from the base.

This is how the bottom panel looks on the inside.

The battery in this device is a 46Wh model.  To take it out, detach the connector from the motherboard, and undo the four Phillips-head screws, that keep the unit fixed to the base. The capacity is enough for 14 hours and 17 minutes of Web browsing or 10 hours of videos.

The optional Lenovo Pen is placed right below the battery.

Sadly, the memory is soldered. Still, the maximum amount is 32GB of LPDDR5-4800MHz RAM in dual-channel mode which sounds plenty. The memory chips are rated at 6400MHz but they work at 4800MHz due to platform limitation. For storage, you get a single M.2 slot for 2242 Gen 4 SSDs. The NVMe is covered by a metal shroud that has a thin thermal pad on the inside. We found another pad below the SSD. The WWAN slot is for optional 4G connectivity.

The cooling is simple – a single fan, a heat sink, one heat pipe, 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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Pratham

2 years ago

Plz one laptop

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