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Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To open this device, you need to undo 13 Phillips-head screws. Then, pry the bottom panel with a plastic tool, starting from the front two corners.

Inside, we find a 53.5Wh battery pack. It got us through 6 hours and 30 minutes of Web browsing, or 5 hours of video playback. To remove the battery, unplug it from the motherboard, and undo the 3 Phillips-head screws keeping it in place.

Thankfully, there are two SODIMM slots, which work with DDR5 RAM, ticking at 5200MHz. The maximum supported capacity is 64GB. Storage-wise, there are also two ports. They fit M.2 PCIe x4 Gen 4 SSDs.

Four heat pipes are shared between the CPU and the GPU. Two more take care of the graphics memory and the VRMs. In addition, you get three heat sinks and two fans.

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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3 years ago

can you charge the laptop by usb-c?

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Christian

2 years ago

Is there a manual to shows how to dissemble the laptop? NOT a user manual that mentions basic uses of the laptop. But rather a manual that discusses how to remove certain components from the laptop.

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