As Lenovo ThinkPad T510 sports the latest Intel Core i3 370M processor, which can even compete with Core i5.   The difference is that Lenovo T510 Core i3 370M processor has raised its frequency to 2.4GHz which is higher than the previous two processors. That is why Lenovo T510 is considered to have the same price as i3 laptop and same performance as i5 laptop. Now let’s have a look on Lenovo ThinkPad T510 Disassembly.

Keyboard in Lenovo ThinkPad T510 Disassembly

Lenovo  T510  inherits ThinkPad strong ability in expansion.

Lenovo T510 disassembly:  its drive adopts Hitachi / LG’s GT30N.

Lenovo T510 is equipped with a Seagate 7200 hard drive to ensure high-speed performance.

Lenovo T510 disassembly begins with keyboard as well as all ThinkPad laptops.

In Lenovo  T510 disassembly, keyboard adopts traditional layout and the length of flat cable has increased.

When Lenovo T510  disassembly of keyboard has finished, we can easily see cooling system, memory and wireless cards.

Panel and Structural Analysis

As a result of 15” mold design, Lenovo  T510 disassembly C side seems to be large. Even if the keyboard has removed, there is wide border on both sides of it. We considered the border belongs to speaker box from the picture but only to found that sound holes are set on the bottom and upper right.

Having removed the fixed screws on the bottom, we can separate Lenovo T510 disassembly C side from the laptop. But please don’t forget to dismantle the device cable of touchpad and fingerprint identification.

We can see only a part of region use reinforcing rib from the back of dismantled C side in Lenovo ThinkPad T510 disassembly.

We found the back of touchpad is not only fixed by metal but also strengthened by reinforcing rib in Lenovo ThinkPad T510 disassembly.

Fingerprint identification use the same way as touchpad to fix it, but with very few reinforcing rib around panel.

Lenovo T510  speaker sound hole is set on the left side of panel in Lenovo  T510 disassembly.

Lenovo  T510 disassembly left side sound hole.

Materials and Layout Analysis

Apart from the exposed area of core hardware, we found that a part of Lenovo T510’s motherboard and those parts to protect motherboard are protected by metal.

Lenovo T510 disassembly without panel

Papery protective cover in Lenovo  T510 disassembly

Radialized structure is used to protect drive and strengthen the structure. And the central hole is the spindle motor.

Though core hardware isn’t protected by metal, the cooling system seems to be a protector to cover it in Lenovo ThinkPad T510 disassembly.

A corner of panel covered by metal in Lenovo ThinkPad T510 disassembly

Speaker units are fixed on the metal by two screws stably in Lenovo  T510 disassembly.

Core Hardware Display and Cooling System Analysis

Lenovo ThinkPad T510 disassembly core hardware area

Lenovo  disassembly Core i3 370M processor,

Lenovo T510 disassembly nVIDIA’s NVS 3100M graphics card

According to nVidia official data, 3100M has integrated 16 stream processors with frequency of 1470MHz, floating-point computing power of 7GFlops and bus width of 64-bit. It can also match with 500MHz GDDR2 or 800MHz GDDR3 with the maximum capacity of 512MB.

Lenovo ThinkPad T510 comes with a 2GB ddR3 1066MHz memory in Lenovo ThinkPad T510 disassembly.

As for users who run 32bit operating system, such memory can deal with current mainstream applications and some -scale commercial software applications. If not, Lenovo T510 also provides a memory slot for further expansion.

Lenovo ThinkPad T510 comes with Intel (R) WiFi Link 1000 BGN wireless card and Intel 82567LM gigabit network card. Wireless card supports 802.11b/g/n with maximum speed 150Mbps while wired network card can support 10/100 / 1000M connection in Lenovo  T510 disassembly.

Lenovo ThinkPad T510 disassembly Bluetooth module

Lenovo  T510 cooling system in Lenovo ThinkPad T510 disassembly

Lenovo T510‘s cooling system is  only a single copper tube design. In addition to using copper for heat conduction, we found GPU and memory use copper cooling fan. And Lenovo ThinkPad T510‘s processor is inlaid with copper metal in Lenovo ThinkPad T510 disassembly, which could also ensure further cooling efficiency.

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