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日本Acer Nitro 17 (AN17-41) review – the efficient Zen 4 CPU and the battery life are great but the GPU performance is a bit disappointing
Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance
If you want to have a look at the internals of this laptop, you need to undo 11 Phillips-head screws. After that, you can pry the bottom plate with a plastic tool or you can pop up the plate by carefully lifting it while holding securely the two plastic exhaust vents on the back.
The battery isn’t held in place with screws because there is a dedicated socket for it on the inside of the bottom panel that is keeping the unit fixed.
The battery is a 90.61Wh variant. To remove it, just pull out the connector from the mainboard, and you can lift the unit away from the chassis. It lasts for 20 hours of Web browsing, or 9 hours and 5 minutes of video playback. This is an astonishing result for a gaming laptop. It looks like when the optimization is good, the Zen 4 CPUs can be pretty efficient. If you want to achieve these numbers, you have to apply the Optimus mode in the BIOS.
There are two SODIMMs for up to 32GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM in dual-channel mode. The devices with refreshed Zen 3+ CPU are limited to 4800MHz RAM speed. The RAM stick is additionally cooled by a thermal pad.
For storage, there are two M.2 slots compatible with Gen 4 SSDs.
The cooling looks promising. It has two fans, two heat pipes shared between the processor and the graphics card, one additional pipe for the CPU, and two more for the GPU. The system is also complemented by two large cooling plates and four heat sinks.
