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Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Acer V3-372 Internals

For those interest, I post a photo of the inside of the Acer V3-372.

The machine was easy to take apart. All screws holding it together were exposed (none hidden underneath the rubber feet).

Of note:
  • There is a second RAM slot allowing 16GB of RAM in total (I haven't tried whether 32GB is supported). RAM is standard DDR3L
  • The SSD is M.2 SATA. I was disappointed that it was not a NVMe or PCI-E
  • WIFI uses M.2 slot also
  • Battery is ~48Wh
When I received the machine, I noticed the RAM was not seated in the slot properly and I re-seated it to avoid problems. Also I moved the antennas crossing the SSD ribbon cable so that they run on top of the cable (from this view) and taped the ribbon cable down to the metal. I did this to increase distance between the two in case interference caused any WiFI problems.




Saturday, 7 November 2015

Acer V3-372 RAM upgrade

I saw conflicting information about the RAM expandability. I confirm that my version came with 8GB RAM in a single slot and has a spare slot.

I've populated the empty slot with another 8GB of DDR3L RAM and this works giving a total of 16GB RAM.