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Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 Review

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 Disassembly

lang — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:28:01 +0000

We have a review on Lenovo IdeaPad Z360, now we disassembly the Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 for those who are interested in it.

Lenovo Z360 package

Lenovo Z360 is out of the box
First, let’s look at Lenovo Z360 out of the box, the things which it contains.

Lenovo Z360 out of the box

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360external power supply and battery

Now that we have to understand the package, then we continue to look at the internal structure of the Lenovo IdeaPad Z360.

Z360 mainframe

Dismantling of the first step, we first dismantle Z360 memory, HDD, CD-ROM and wireless network card.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 Disassembly

Second step, we disassemble the keyboard and the C side, and then we saw the Z360′s motherboard.

Dismantling Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 keyboard

Z360 motherboard

Third step, we separate the shell with the host board. We need to remove heat pipes and cooling fan over the motherboard, so we can see the Intel Core series processors. And we completely disassembled this Lenovo IdeaPad Z360.

Dismantling radiators and processor of Lenovo IdeaPad Z360

Lenovo IdeaPad Z360 all components

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Lenovo ThinkPad T410s Disassembly

lang — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:50:20 +0000

It has already has a review on Lenovo ThinkPad T410s, today, I will dismantle ThinkPad T410s to help you know the structure and workmanship of ThinkPad T410s. We believe that, through to the dismantling to reveal a product’s internal work seems more attractive to users, and it can tell what we usually can not see, and users will have a more in-depth understanding of Lenovo ThinkPad T410s.

T410s and T400s maintained a consistent style

T410s and T400s’s general styles are still close, but some body layout has changed, the most intuitive is the change of interface position. ThinkPad T410s supports Core-i5 processor, integrated graphics and discrete graphics switch mode.

ThinkPad T410s inherited the large sized ESC, and DELETE keys

We have to remove ThinkPad T410s drive by both hands.

Lenovo ThinkPad T410s features disk, optical drive, memory and wireless LAN expansion, upgrade capacity.

First: dismantle ThinkPad T410s keyboard

Dismantling the keyboard is the key for dismantling the whole ThinkPad T410s

Keyboard bottom side is covered with plastic for preventing water

The PCB of pointing stick is protected by meta.l

Removed Lenovo ThinkPad T410s keyboard

Palmrest is easy to be dismantled.

Lenovo ThinkPad T410s palmrest back side

Fingerprint identification device was surrounded by metal

The metal protection on the back side of ThinkPad T410s touchpad

Second: continue to dismantle – ThinkPad T410s body panels and hidden Bluetooth module

Bluetooth module is at the bottom of the right palmrest.

T410s’ Bluetooth module details

Cable connectors are at the bottom of the palm rest

ThinkPad T410s keyboard and palmrest have been dismantled.

Lenovo ThinkPad T410s speaker and speaker cable

Removed body panels

Bluetooth module

Third: separation of the screen is the key to dismantle Lenovo ThinkPad T410s.

Only to separate the screen from the laptop, can we demolish motherboard.

ThinkPad T410s motherboard is soldered on the machine.

ThinkPad T410s VGA and power connector is designed on a small board which is connected with a large motherboard by plug-type connection.

The metal cover on the picture is the removal switch of the drive

Lenovo ThinkPad T410s motherboard, it is covered by some the black stickers.

Lenovo ThinkPad T410s motherboard back side and it is almost covered by black sticker.

Fourth: the Lenovo ThinkPad T410s motherboard has been disassembled, now we have a look on some components and some details.

ThinkPad T410s front motherboard side

ThinkPad T410s back side of motherboard

ThinkPad T410s is using three-copper heat dissipation

ThinkPad T410s wireless card positive side

ThinkPad T410s wireless card back side

ThinkPad T410s Core i5 Processor is soldered on the motherboard.

T410s NVS3100M discrete graphics

Fifth: more details about T410s motherboard, compact, light and thin

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details and Intel card chip

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details and docking station connector

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details

ThinkPad T410s motherboard and memory details

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details and card reader control chip

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details PCH chipset

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details and memory

ThinkPad T410s motherboard details

Sixth: Interface details

ThinkPad T410s Interfaces: Displayport, eSATA, USB

ThinkPad T410s Interfaces: eSATA, USB, RJ45

ThinkPad T410s Interfaces: USB, Audio COMBO Interfaces

ThinkPad T410s Interface

ThinkPad T410s Interface: SATA

ThinkPad T410s Interface: Battery Interface

ThinkPad T410s Interface: SIM slot

ThinkPad T410s Interface: SATA

ThinkPad T410s interface: memory slot

ThinkPad T410s Interface: USB, Audio COMBO Interfaces

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Sony VAIO P Laptop Disassembly

lang — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:15:56 +0000

We have a review on Sony VAIO P, today we will dismantle it for you to know the structure of Sony VAIO P. You will not only know its performance of it but also the fine workmanship of this Sony VAIO P laptop.

Compared old and new VAIO P, the new models colors are more vivid, more beautiful.

The new Sony VAIO P screen is thicker, but the body is thinner, so there is little change in overall thickness.

The new VAIO P is without heats vents

After knowing the new VAIO P outlook design, then began to disassemble it. Begin with the keyboard.

First, remove the Sony VAIO P battery, you can see three screws, unscrews them.

Then dismantle four screws on the lower left side and lower right side of the keyboard.

This Sony VAIO P keyboard can be removed.

This is the magnesium alloy frame underneath the Sony VAIO P keyboard.

Then dismantle the power button above the Sony VAIO P keyboard, and light indicator parts.

Now we have to remove the rubber pad on both sides of the battery slot bottom, there are two screws here.

Dismantle the power button and light indicators parts, and then you can dismantle the antenna, power cable, display cable and other signal cables on the Sony VAIO P.

We can disassemble the Sony VAIO P body.

This is the magnesium alloy frame underneath the Sony VAIO P keyboard.

Let the frame upside down, you can see VAIO P motherboard

This is the bottom cover of VAIO P.

Now we take a look at Sony VAIO P LCD.

Sony VAIO P LCD screen and a variety of signal lines and antennas

Sony VAIO P top cover and LCD screen

VAIO P LCD panel and framework

Then we have a look at the VAIO P motherboard, SSD, etc.

On lower left of VAIO P, there is a SATA – PATA converter chip, the right side is SSD (below central brown signal line)

VAIO P SSD

Here there is Mini PCI Express slot, Bluetooth module, USB expansion port, the lower left corner is the Bluetooth antenna

Right side of VAIO P, there is a variety of wireless network / WiMAX module, besides a variety of expansion ports

VAIO P motherboard, the central top side of it is the CPU and chipset; located in the lower left, it is the memory.

VAIO P motherboard back side, you can see the card reader

Next, we can look at some “peripheral” parts.

7.4V batteries is with capacity 2500mAh/19W, life has improved on the previous generation

Acceleration sensor is located in the central of the VAIO P.

Axis sensor is located on the right side of power button.

Brightness sensor is located in the bottom of the screen.

Overall, VAIO P fully uses of SSD and simplifying the thermal design, interior structure are more compact. Overall, the design is more fashionable, very stylish.

Lenovo ThinkPad W510 Laptop Disassembly

littleq03 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:22:00 +0000

Lenovo ThinkPad W510 is equipped with the top configuration in Lenovo ThinkPad W serious products: Intel Core i7 920 processor, NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1GB Graphics card, 4GB DDR3 1066 memory, two 500GB HDD and a 15.6-inch muti-touch screen with a color calibration system. Besides performance, it’s nothing more curious than W510 internal structure. We disassemble Lenovo ThinkPad W510 to know its inner structure and workmanship.

Before removing the keyboard, we should know something about it.The keyboard of W510 still inherits ThinkPad original style, however, it enlarges some keys, adds a group of audio control buttons and the height of space bar is slightly higher than other keys.

Let’s begin with the keyboard.

Classic Red dot design

Enlarged Del button

Enlarged ESC button

A group of audio control button

Disassembly the keyboard

Mouse button and keyboard is united together as one.

All the snaps in front of keyboard have been peeled.

The components inside Lenovo ThinkPad W510 are in a good order.

Remove the keyboard

It is not easy to remove flex cables as it fixes in this way.

Memory and HDD

Two Memory slots in the bottom.

W510 supports Memory up to 16GB, and up to 4GB for one Memory slot.

Seagate 500GB HDD is also in the bottom of Lenovo ThinkPad W510. Where is the other one? It will come soon.

The bottom of HDD cassette

The both sides of cassette use rubber material, which is steady and shockproof.

After removing the keyboad, we can see memory and optical drive clearly.

The memory is close to processor.

Two Sumsung 2GB DDR3 1066 memories

Peel the snaps in two sides and the memory upsprings automatically.

The heat sink should be taken out before removing the other memory.

The other HDD is here.

HDD enclosureof W510

A metal board in the rear

HDD enclosureof W510

The Gorge in HDD

Big Pure Copper Heat Sink, Processor and Graphics Card

Three pure copper heat pipes and turbine fan

What a luxury heat cooling system! It deserves to cool Core i7 920 processor and NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1GB professional graphics card.

To avoid the keyboard being too hot, the heat pipes above processor and graphics card has been separed by a block piece.

Take out heat sink

The back of heat sink

The heat sink of ThinkPad W510 is heavy.

Dense and thick pure copper cooling fins

After removing the heat sink, we can see processor and graphics chip. Core i7 is in the right part.

Unscrew the right screw and Core i7 920 processor can be removed.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1GB professional graphics card of W510

Core i7 920 processor

The close stitches in the back

Screen, Speaker and Others

Uncrew the bottom screw and foront screw in the screen hinge

Left screen hinge

Two screws fix each side of the screen

Screen of W510

Appearance without screen, processor, memory and HDD

Memory slot and processor slot

The speaker in the right side of keyboard

The speaker in the left side of keyboard

The speaker is a bit big in W510.

The bottom of speaker

The battery in the motherboard

Wireless network module

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Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 Disassembly

lang — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:36:38 +0000

We have a review on Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 not long ago; today I will let you know the internal structure of Lenovo IdeaPad Y460. if you want to disassemble a notebook, it is usually take actions with the back side of the laptop.

From the many hatches on the back side of Lenovo IdeaPad Y460, we can know that it is very easy for users to dismantle every component.

There are so many cooling holes and the removable hatches on the Lenovo IdeaPad Y460’s back side.

Wireless network card and the SIM card part of the Lenovo IdeaPad Y460

As usually, most laptops can be dismantled with the help of screwdriver. However, the hatches of IdeaPad Y460’s wireless card and the SIM card slot are using a simpler buckle design, so there is no need for you to replace the SIM card with the screwdriver.

IdeaPad Y460 notebook back side is disassembled.

By removing the screws easily, we can see most of the hardware of IdeaPad Y460, the memory, hard drive and cooling components can be replaced directly or clean-up.

The shield layer and dust shielding layer of the back side of the IdeaPad Y460’s hatches

We can also see the metal shield layer in every hatch, and there is dust shielding layer covered on the cooling holes.

Next, we will tell how to disassemble the main components of Lenovo Y460. First of all, let’s have a look on the processor and the cooling components.

First, remove the fan

Brass radiator of Lenovo IdeaPad Y460

We can see there is a sponge protecting the brass radiator from dust.

i5-430M as well as HM55 Chipset of Lenovo IdeaPad Y460

The latest Core i5 Processor used on IdeaPad Y460

The difference between the Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 and other conventional notebooks is that we can directly remove the cooling components through dismantling the back side hatch of the Lenovo Y460; it is very easy for users to clean or maintain the cooling fan.

Next, we look at the Lenovo Y460 notebook’s main hardware.

Single 2GB of DDR3 RAM

Hard drive

You can remove the CD-ROM just by removing one screw.

Finally, we look at the internal structure of Lenovo IdeaPad Y460.

First, remove the keyboard bracket of below the screen and near the keyboard. Then remove the cable.

After removing the keyboard, we can see the inside structure of Lenovo IdeaPad Y460.

Y460 inside part

Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 is dismantled.

From the internal structure, we can know that Lenovo Y460′s internal speakers, speaker cable, wireless LAN antenna, screen cable and so on are all designed well. The whole structure of Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 is fine. Moreover, you can clean or replace most of the components just by simple dismantling.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T410 VS Lenovo ThinkPad T400

lang — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:33:23 +0000

When Lenovo ThinkPad T410 came out, many people will be curious about what the differences are between Lenovo ThinkPad T410 and Lenovo ThinkPad T400. Besides the performance of ThinkPad T410 is improved, how about the differences of their design and internal structure?

Last year, Lenovo launched the ThinkPad T400s which is thinner than the ThinkPad T series. Now some elements on the ThinkPad T400s have been applied to the ThinkPad T410 such as symmetrical frame, new keyboard layout and location of the keyboard indicator light.

Lenovo ThinkPad T410 looks more fashionable according to the material of its bottom side. Lenovo ThinkPad T410 features ABS plastic material and carbon fiber reinforced plastic chassis. The built-in anti-roll frame will prevent the laptop from damage.

Lenovo ThinkPad T410 is at the dimension of 33.27cm × 23.87cm × 3.17cm, and is equipped with a 6-cell battery. The weight of ThinkPad T410 is 1.36kg. The size and weight of T410 is almost as same as that of T400 and HP Elitebook 8440w.

ThinkPad T410 also features dual-microphone array design, with the top of the screen of the camera; it is useful for business meetings and video chat.

DVD burner

2 million pixel camera on the top of Lenovo ThinkPad T410’s screen

For Lenovo ThinkPad T400, the “Lenovo” logo is at the lower left corner, while the “ThinkPad” logo is at the lower right corner. The hinge on the left is a little bigger than that on the right. What’s more, the indicator light is at the right of centre.

For Lenovo ThinkPad T410, there is no “Lenovo” logo at the lower left corner, but there is a “ThinkPad” logo at the lower right corner. The hinges of both left and right side are same. And the indicator light is at the left of centre.

T410 is equipped with complete interfaces.

Front side of ThinkPad T410, SD Card Reader and buckle.

The left side of ThinkPad T410: VGA, RJ45, DisplayPort, 3 USB ports, smartcard slot

The right side of ThinkPad T410: Wireless switch, eSATA, Audio, DVDRW optical drive, USB port, 1394 port.

Rear side of ThinkPad T410: Power jack, RJ11.

Left side of Lenovo ThinkPad T400: Louver, VGA-Out, Modem, LAN, 2x USB 2.0, PCCard/ExpressCard

Right side of Lenovo ThinkPad T400: UltraBay Slot with optical drive, USB

The front side of the T400 has the FireWire port, wireless on/off switch, headphone jack and microphone jack

The back side of Lenovo ThinkPad T400 just has a power jack, vent and battery

Interface comparison: the upper laptop is T400, the lower laptop is T410.

Front side of Lenovo ThinkPad T410 and Lenovo ThinkPad T400

Right side of Lenovo ThinkPad T410 and Lenovo ThinkPad T400

Rear side of Lenovo ThinkPad T410 and Lenovo ThinkPad T400

Left side of Lenovo ThinkPad T410 and Lenovo ThinkPad T400

Screen Contrast:

ThinkPad T400 features non-symmetrical frame, and the indicators light are much more than that of ThinkPad T410 and they are at the right of the centre.

ThinkPad T410 features symmetrical frame, and it just comes with WLAN, WWAN light and hard disk light.

Screen Contrast

On the bottom side of T410, there is a memory cover. Hard disk is located on the left of laptop body.

Bottom side Contrast

The T410 is equipped with 57W6-cell battery.

Battery comparison: upper is the battery of T410; the lower battery is for T400.

Battery Comparison

CD-ROM contrast: upper is the driver of T410; the lower driver is for T400.

Keyboard and touchpad

ThinkPad T410 using the same keyboard of T400s. it not only has a high-touch texture design but also increases the size of ESC and DEL keys. If you use both hands to type, usually up to 80 words / min.

T400 touchpad

T410 touchpad

In addition, ThinkPad T410 has the red and blue line design, the touchpad of ThinkPad T410 is featuring a granular design which can offer a good texture as well as anti-slip effect.

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Lenovo Thinkpad X100e (red) Disassembly

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:06:55 +0000

Lenovo released 11 inch notebook Lenovo Thinkpad X100e in 2010 CES, Lenovo Thinkpad X100e not only the first product of Thinkpad series based on AMD platform, also the first time to use color oustside black.

Next, we dismantle Lenovo Thinkpad X100e red today to appreciate interior design of latest Thinkpad.

Lenovo Thinkpad X100e fuselage uses a single monolithic backplane, you can see the back of overall internal case scenario after removing a few screws.Open the back cover of Lenovo Thinkpad X100e.

Lenovo Thinkpad X100e battery.

The overall design of back board of Lenovo Thinkpad X100e, it cantains metal electrostatic shield.

Although Lenovo Thinkpad X100e screen is 11 inch, its configuration is still relatively complete.

Dual memory slot, Lenovo Thinkpad X100e comes with standard 2GB DDR3 Memory.

Reserved mini PCI-e slot, and Bluetooth module of Lenovo Thinkpad X100e.

Half-size wireless card, and set aside a SIM card slot to supports 3G.

Lenovo Thinkpad X100e hard drive has shock protection layer.

Lenovo Thinkpad X100e keyboard uses a new fixation methods.

For common Thinkpad notebook, you can take off keyboard easily if removing the screws.

Lenovo Thinkpad X100e fixed using the keyboard upper buckle design, each side has one.

You can see cable of keyboard, touchpad and trackpoint if you remove the Lenovo Thinkpad X100e keyboard.

Lenovo ThinkPad T500 Disassembly

lang — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:17:03 +0000

I will dismantle Lenovo ThinkPad T500, and let you know not only the appearance but also the internal structures of Lenovo ThinkPad T500. It is worthy for you to have a look.

Lenovo ThinkPad T500

Lenovo ThinkPad T500 bottom side

ThinkPad’s Logo

Lenovo’s Logo

Lenovo ThinkPad T500 front side

Lenovo ThinkPad T500 front side: 1394 interface, wireless switch, headset jack

5-in-1 card reader

On the left side of ThinkPad T500, it adds a DisplayPort jack, and three USB ports are all on the left side of the laptop.

Lenovo ThinkPad T500 right side

Lenovo ThinkPad T500 rear side

Fingerprint reader of Lenovo ThinkPad T500

There are no red and blue lines on the keyboard

The WWAN icon is added

The position of ThinkPad T500’s speakers is different from that of ThinkPad T400

Microphone is below the screen

Keyboard light and camera of ThinkPad T500

The screen angle is large

Displayport jack of ThinkPad T500

The SIM card slot is in the battery slot.

Battery of Lenovo ThinkPad T500 which is also available on ThinkPad T61.

6-cell 5.2AH battery

Back side of Lenovo ThinkPad T500’s drive

Lenovo ThinkPad T500’s drive

The SATA jack of ThinkPad T500

7200 rpm 200GB hard drive

ThinkPad T500’s keyboard and palmerest are been dismantled.

Palmrest is added a copper foil

The keyboard of ThinkPad T500 can be used on ThinkPad T6 while it is much lighter than the keyboard of ThinkPad T6.

3GB DDR3（2GB+1GB)

Memory slot of ThinkPad T500

MODEM card and wireless card of Lenovo ThinkPad T500

Fan’s layering and MODEM card’s iron cover

ThinkPad T500’s wireless card with three antennas

ThinkPad T500’s fan

The WWAN’s antennas of ThinkPad T500

ThinkPad T500’s SIM card slot

The position for Turbo Memory, and there are two screws, which can be used when you want to add a card.

Lenovo ThinkPad T500 is dismantled.

The screen of Lenovo ThinkPad T500 is disassembled too.

There are 5 antennas on Lenovo ThinkPad T500.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T500’s main components

Speakers of Lenovo ThinkPad T500

Fans of Lenovo ThinkPad T500

We can see the CPU of Lenovo ThinkPad T500

The CPU, graphics cards and North Bridge are under the fan heat sink

T9400 CPU of ThinkPad T500

ThinkPad T500’s SIM card slot is different from the SIM card slot of ThinkPad T400.

ThinkPad T500’s SIM card slot

D-shell of ThinkPad T500 is removed.

The back side of ThinkPad T500’s D-shell, you may have to pay attention to the screws and know where every screw will go.

D-shell of ThinkPad T500, there is copper foil for the use of heat transfer

Anti-roll frame of ThinkPad T500

Back side of Anti-roll frame of ThinkPad T500

PC card slot of ThinkPad T500

Back side of ThinkPad T500’s PC card slot

ThinkPad T500’s motherboard

Back side of ThinkPad T500’s motherboard

Graphics, South Bridge and North Bridge of ThinkPad T500

The left side interfaces on the ThinkPad T500’s motherboard.

SATA optical drive interface

The drive’s position and the battery’s connector

5-in-1 card reader, which supports SDHC, SD, MMC, xD, MS cards.

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