ASUS Vivobook 16 (X1605) review – affordability comes at 16 inches

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To access this notebook’s internals, you need to undo 10 Phillips-head screws. After that, pry the bottom panel with a plastic tool, and lift it away from the chassis.

Inside, we find a 42Wh battery pack. To take it out, unplug the connector from the motherboard, and undo the 4 Phillips-head screws that hold it in place.

This device features 8GB of DDR4 RAM soldered to the motherboard, with one SODIMM slot offering further expansion. As for storage, you get one M.2 PCIe x4 slot, which works with either Gen 3 or Gen 4 SSDs.

Cooling-wise, there is one very long heat pipe that connects to two heat sinks. A single fan blows the heat away from the chassis.

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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j.p.

3 years ago

Thank you for the article.

I’m waiting for delivery on the laptop linked below, and it comes with a m.2 port.
Does this mean that I cannot install a second m.2 ssd internally?

Thanks.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-vivobook-16-wuxga-laptop-intel-13-gen-core-i5-with-8gb-memory-intel-uhd-graphics-512gb-ssd-indie-black/6545930.p?skuId=6545930

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