Disassemble Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E30 Tutorial January 18, 2010

There is a review on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E30 just the other day, today there will be a disassemble guide for your to take Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E30 apart.
Before you take any actions, you may have to get your pen and paper ready write down the steps you disassemble the laptop, and keep all the screws well on a safe place and mark every screw.
Turn off your laptop, and remove the battery to avoid risk.
Flip ThinkPad Edge E30 upside down, there is a big hatch on the bottom, and it is easy for you to take this hatch out. Remove screws which hold the hatch in place, then you will see what the things are under the hatch.


When you have removed the hatch, you will see the internal structure in the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E30, there is HDD, RAM, motherboard and processor etc.

As our goal is to disassemble the all laptop, so we have to disassemble the motherboard, but the screw holding motherboard in place is a little difficult to find, this screw’s location is shown as followed picture. As you can see, there is no doubt Lenovo laptop has a exquisite design.

According to the design of most ThinkPad laptops, we have to disassemble the keyboard to go into the inside of ThinkPad Edge E30. Now we have to take some measures on ThinkPad Edge E30 keyboard.
There is a little difference between disassembling ThinkPad Edge E30 and other traditional ThinkPad laptops. We can remove the keyboard just with our fingers on traditional ThinkPad laptops, while on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E30, when we are going to remove keyboard, we have to insert the sharp tool under the keyboard lift two buckles on both sides up.


When you lift the keyboard up, we must pay attention to the cables connecting the keyboard and motherboard. Unplug the cable interfaces then remove the keyboard.


Now we have to remove palmrest of ThinkPad Edge E30, we have to lift the palmrest up with the help of sharp tool or knife.

When we have removed the keyboard and palmrest, we can see the whole inner structure of ThinkPad Edge E30 as well as the motherboard; the fan, processor, capacitor on the motherboard and line distribution of the ThinkPad Edge E30.

Do you want to know about the thermal design of ThinkPad Edge E30? The ThinkPad Edge E30 transfers its main heat through the fan by a copper pipe, and there are two heat vents on the coat above the chipset; which make the whole laptop ventilate.

This is the ThinkPad E30’s main cooling mode.

There is a special interface design for ThinkPad Edge E30. On most laptops, the interfaces are all connected with motherboard, and you have to replace the whole motherboard if one of the interfaces is broken. While there is no doubt you will not encounter such problem, because on the right of ThinkPad Edge E30, there is a small board connecting the interfaces and motherboard. So if one of the interfaces is broken, you just replace it instead of the motherboard.

Now you have an understanding on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E30, there are many humanization design on this Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E30 we can know about from these unique designs, and you will know off the inherent quality of ThinkPad Edge E30.

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