we've taken apart a lot of Microsoft
Surface devices and historically they
haven't done very well in our
repairability meter the highest score
we've seen is the surface studios five
out of ten but today we have the new
addition to the surface line the surface
laptop with the super slim form factor
13.5 inch touchscreen and fancy
Alcantara line keyboard the surface
laptop has truly piqued our interest but
where will it find itself at our
repairability meter I'll give you a hint
getting into this new surface laptop was
a total nightmare after finding no
visible screws or obvious point of entry
we decided to dive in through the
keyboard lining after trying our I open
er and picks and then every other
opening and prying tool we have we
settled on the ultra dangerous heat gun
and Jimmy this Alcantara stuff is really
really tough to remove and really really
prone to cutting and tearing oh and
about heat guns if you look away for a
second bad things might happen but it's
fine you don't need a delete or
backspace key anyway right after much
more cutting tearing prying heating and
melting than we'd like in an opening
procedure we finally get the fabric
cover off and are met with yet another
gluten piece of gear the trackpad and
keyboard plate lists up to reveal its
connection to the motherboard
which like everything else on the
motherboard is securely hidden behind a
clip-on shield we've seen this on other
surface devices in the past but it
doesn't make the arduous process of
removing all the shields any less
annoying another point of concern is
that we can't see where the battery is
connected to the motherboard so we'll
have to continue our disassembly with
the battery still connected the only way
in is through the fan and heatsink combo
and with it removed we can ditch the
speaker's surface connect charging port
and the display this is a 13.5 IPS pixel
dense display with a resolution of 22 56
5 1504 and a pixel density of 201 pixel
per inch the motherboard is finally free
and on the board we spot the Intel Core
i5 processor 4 gigabytes of RAM and the
C Shiba made 128 gigabyte SSD we took a
look at the i7 version of the surface
laptop and identified a ton of other
tips over on our site so if you're
curious check out the full teardown over
at ice exists the only thing left is the
battery this 45 point 2 watt hour
battery has roughly the same capacity as
the one in the latest surface pro
and is completely and thoroughly glued
to the cake with the circus laptop fully
disassembled it was time to evaluate its
repair ability the surface laptop scored
a whopping zero out of 10 and here's why
this laptop is not meant to be opened or
repaired you can't get inside without
inflicting a ton of damage the CPU RAM
and on-board storage are soldered to the
motherboard so upgrades are no-go and
while the headphone jack is modular it
can only be accessed by removing the
heat sink fan display and the
motherboard and lastly the battery is
difficult and dangerous to replace
giving the device and limited lifespan
and that's all for this teardown don't
forget to check out the full tear down
over at ifixit.com which includes some
sweet x-ray images and stay tuned for
more tear downs coming next week I'll
see you next time
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