Fantastic and interesting. I'll never open up my Zenbook Duo UX8406 to work on it, but it's nice to know what's what, how it's put together and where things are inside it. Special thanks for providing the full suite of settings to achieve maximum battery life! This is the only place I've come across the specific formula...I definitely noted it for future reference!
Definitely don’t. Mine had the battery connector randomly disconnecting. After taking it off once the 2 screws on the small cover will not screw back in, they’re not stripped or anything just too small. Now probably won’t get warranty :) 4K au in the bin unless someone local can fix
I cannot imagine why they decided that the one and only upgradable component had to be inaccessible until you took apart every single connection on the entire device... the actual position of the SSD is so close to the little hatch on the back that has to be opened anyway before you can access anything...
It is not a bad laptop, it doesn't have many glued parts, but the memory is soldered and it's very difficult to access the SSD drive, although it's appreciated that it can be upgraded.
@@novacombatartsI was able to do the 4TB upgrade successfully. 8TB wasn‘t possible cause I couldn’t find single sided 8TB SSD. Didn‘t really need that much though. I can post tips on the upgrade here if anyone needs them. Some steps were not explained here in enough detail, but i figured them out. Really happy with upgrade.
@@JeffBaugher-g6q When you open the access port, the battery connector is covered with black tape which isn’t shown in the video. Remove the tape gently and then pry the connector straight upwards with a flat tool. This particular detachment isn’t shown in the video. On the display connector, after you flip up the cap which rotates on a hinge, grab the tab and slide the cable straight back away from the connector and out of its slot. Then, in the next step, while prying the main housing away from the second panel, there are very strong clips holding the two sides together. Do what the video says, but understand that the force applied needs to be slow but quite strong to get the clips to pop open. Having the actual tool in the video or something similar that can be inserted then rotated will make it easier. The fan and speaker connectors are detached straight upwards. You don’t need to go any further in the video than when you turn the mainboard over to access the SSD, the replacement for which must be single-sided (with NAND chips only on one side). Don‘t remove the fans or speakers. The scary moments during this mod are not knowing which direction to pull the cables or how much force will be needed. If you pull in the right direction, and open the display connector properly, none of the cable detachments require much force. If you feel like force is needed you‘re almost certainly applying pressure in the wrong direction or the connector isn’t full open. Take it slow, store removed screws carefully in groups according to size and shape, maybe take pictures of how cables run before moving them. Good luck!
You make it sound like all laptops should be freely upgradable with no drawbacks, no matter the engineering challenge or loss on potential profits. It’s like consoles. You get what you get until the new gen comes out.
@@willhutton1516 You make it sound like giving people the freedom of choice to upgrade their product or repair it without having to buy a whole different device is some kind of rocket science when there are thinner laptops with upgradable memory. Meat riding these companies like they give a fk about you... Moron.
There is actually a semi-valid argument for soldered ram in high-end machines now, since the highest speed memory is starting to be limited by the physical length of the traces on the motherboard, instead of it just being a scam by apple. But then you see manufacturers trying to sell you a machine with 4GB soldered into it... Makes me thankful for Framework at least.
Yup. Unupgradable irreparable cheap trash with ridiculous markups to make sure you can't fix or upgrade it to maximize profit margins. That's the direction the industry is going unfortunately.
There are two versions of the UX8406, the 32GB RAM version in this video (UX8406MA-PS99T) and the 16GB version (UX8406MA-DS76T). Good reference video. Useful if I ever decide to upgrade the SSD to 2TB which ironically is available in other markets but not in the US market.
