 Hello this is Nick from Laptop Media, and today we will show you how to open the 8th Gen Lenovo Legion Slim 5i. To remove the bottom plate you have to unscrew 10 Philips head screws, and then you can pop up the bottom panel with the aid of a plastic tool. Please remember, it would be of great help to us if you just hit the like button and subscribe to our channel. That would motivate us to make even more and better videos for you. When you flip the bottom plate, you'll see 3 thermal pads for cooling the 2 SSDs and the metal RAM shroud. Here, the battery is an 80 watt hour unit. If you want to take it out, first you have to unscrew 6 Philips head screws, and after that you have to unplug the battery connector from the motherboard. The battery life is good. The 80 watt hour capacity is enough for 8 hours and 20 minutes of web browsing, or 7 hours and 42 minutes of video playback. The upgrade options are good as well. For RAM upgrades, you can rely on 2 DDR5 Sodims. The maximum possible amount of memory is 32 GB, DDR5 5200 MHz. Keep in mind that the memory sticks here are rated at 5600 MHz, but their actual frequency is 5200 MHz due to processor limitation. The RAM area is covered with a metal shroud, and it's great to see it has 2 thermal pads on the inside for lowering the memory sticks temperature. For storage, there are 2 M.2 PCI-EX4 slots, compatible with Gen4 SSDs. The cooling system here looks capable. There are 2 fans, and 3 heat pipes shared for CPU and GPU cooling, and one of them is extra thick which is good. The 4th heat pipe is dedicated to cooling the graphics memory and the VRMs.