🛠️ How to open Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 (14″, Gen 9) - disassembly and upgrade options

hello this is Nick from laptop media and today we will show you how to open the 14-in Lenovo Yoga 7i 2 in one gen 9 to open this laptop you have to undo seven Torx head screws lift the top two corners with a thin plastic tool to open a gap and pry the sides now you can pry the front don't pop the back lift the front of the panel and slide it forward this device has a 71w hour battery to take it out unplug the connector from the motherboard and undo the three Phillips head screws that fix the unit to the chassis the capacity is enough for around 20 hours of web browsing or 13 hours of video playback to achieve that you have to apply the best power efficiency preset in the windows power and Battery menu and select the battery saver mode in the Lenovo Vantage app the panel self-refresh option is turned on in the Intel Graphics Command Center the ram here is soldered however you get up to 32 GB of LP ddr5x 7467 MHz memory that works in dual Channel mode the metal cap above the chips can be popped with a lever tool and we can have a look at the soldered modules for storage there is just one m.2 slot for 2242 Gen 4 ssds we found a thermal pad below the nvme drive the cooling has one large fan a pair of long heat pipes one heat sink and a heat spreader