so one must remove the motherboard from the laptop in order to install/change the ram or the hard drive

I will edit my review if I can figure out how to change the hard drive partitions, or upgrade the SSD.Throttling

Just wish the Hard drive space was bigger.

Highly recommend doing a clean install of windows to unify the hard drive partitions and remove some of the built in software

encountered.id also reccomened getting an external ssd for games as there isnt a ton of hard drive space. changing the hard drive isnt easy

It has a second M.2 hard drive slot, but to access it you have to disassemble literally everything (I had to laugh when the teardown video showed how to take out the wifi card in order to read the hard drive slot)

So I instead bought an external hard drive with 4TB for $80

I made the mistake of only getting a 256 gig hard drive, and I almost filled it up immediately (Dang it Destiny 2, why you gotta be 60 gigs)

The only con I have so far is what it takes to add another hard drive or more RAM but at least it's still an option unlike other thin laptops

I upgraded the 16 gb ram that came with it to 32 gb and added a 1tb SSD in the second hard drive slot

I made the mistake of only getting a 256 gig hard drive, and I almost filled it up

Although there are few upgrades you can perform on this machine RAM + Hard Drive are 2 that become significantly more annoying to perform due to the upside down orientation of the motherboard

It has a second M.2 hard drive slot, but to access it you have to disassemble literally everything

I ordered the one with the smaller hard drive as I already had plans on swapping existing SSD's into the unit that were larger and performed better

The only issue is the small SSD, but that is easily solved by using an external hard drive.