Nowadays, young people’s demand for computers is starting to become thinner and lighter, and they want laptops to be thin and light while still having strong performance. Although we have seen a lot of thin and light gaming laptops with MAX-Q graphics cards on the market, the price is not affordable for many friends. However, with the recent popularity of Intel’s 8th Gen Core processors and GeForce MX150 graphics cards, thin and light gaming laptops are also possible. The HP Pavilion 15-ck000 that we disassembled this time is one such product.
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Its bottom cover is made of plastic material, and it has an air inlet, which makes it easy for cold air to enter into the fuselage. In addition to visible three screws securing the bottom cover, there are two hidden screws under two-foot pads on the top of the bottom cover.
After unscrewing the screws on the back cover, carefully pry open all the fasteners along the edge. It should be noted that the fixed fasteners are tight; you need a little bit of patience to pry open them.
After opening the bottom cover, you can see the Pavilion 15 uses a single fan and single copper tube design. With two memory slots and maximum support for 16GB memory, it comes with an M.2 SSD and a 2.5″ HDD. Unlike most thin and light ultrabooks, the Pavilion 15 allows users to upgrade the memory, SSD, and hard drives easily.
Different from the traditional ultrabook’s battery connector, the built-in battery is connected to the motherboard with metal contacts.
HP Pavilion 15-ck000 comes with a 11.55V, 3470mAh Li-polymer battery, HP P/N: 920046-541, HSTNN-UB7J.
As a 15-inch notebook, its battery capacity is still a little smaller.
It comes with a Samsung 8GB DDR4 2400MHz memory, and users can add 8GB memory to constitute 16GB dual-channel memory, which can be more rapid for running large programs.
The Intel 360GB M.2 PCIe SSD has often been found on HP laptops recently. Compared with single-drive solutions, the M.2 SSD + HDD combination of hard drives does not require users to spend more money on large-capacity SSDs. The mechanical hard drives can be upgraded to 2TB, so users do not need to worry about capacity problems.
The HP Pavilion 15-ck000 features an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 Wi-Fi adapter. It supports 802.11ac, dual-band, and Bluetooth 4.2.
After removing the wireless network card, you can see the internal structure of the left I/O board. The I/O board is connected to the motherboard via the cable.
This small board integrates a 3.5mm headphone jack.
It’s worth noting that the power button is also integrated into the I/O board, which can be easily repaired and replaced if it is damaged.
The touchpad has a special metal baffle to ensure that it doesn’t collapse when pressed.
The surface of the touchpad is covered with a layer of glass to ensure a smooth touch feel.
Although the Pavilion 15 features a single fan design, it is fortunately large enough to ensure adequate airflow. With HP CoolSense, you can automatically adjust your PC’s performance and fan speed to ensure a comfortable experience.
After taking off the fan, you can see that the palm rest is also designed with the air inlet to ensure adequate intake air volume.
Although the cooling module has only one copper tube covering the CPU and GPU at the same time, the copper tube has a larger cross-section area and shorter length, which can ensure excellent thermal efficiency.
After removing the cooling module, you can see Intel’s eighth-generation i5-8250U processor.
Here is the NVIDIA GeForce MX150 TDP25W graphics card. The two black cubes above are two 1GB memory chips. The performance of this MX150 discrete graphics has significantly surpassed the GeForce 940MX.
The two memory slots on the motherboard are limited by the space inside the Ultrabook body, resulting in the memory having to be integrated into the motherboard, but the large 15-inch body does not have this problem.
In the front of the motherboard, you can see two memory slots occupying a lot of board space.
After removing the motherboard, you can clearly see the distribution of the two speakers. The connection between the two speakers is neatly fastened by a snap.
The speakers are relatively bulky and provide good hardware support for B&O sound.
There is a large piece of insulating paper on the back of the keyboard to protect the motherboard from contacting metal and affecting stability.
