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It is not all that difficult aside from getting the back off. There are 11 screws which are not too bad but you have to pry the back off and be careful not to break any pins. because of the design of this laptop the front is easy but getting past the boxier back portion is more difficult as you cannot just insert a credit card or something. It is doable just not very easy. It has a 2.5 inch drive slot and an M.2 slot. The 2.5 inch drive slot is in a very thin metal brace and if you have ever done it before it is not that hard. Just be aware the 8gb ram model at least from the description looks like it comes with just a 2.5 inch hard drive but the 16gb ram model comes with a 2.5 inch hard drive and an intel optane module in the M.2 slot. So it is doable just not very easy and you have to be careful not to break the pins. My recommendation for trying to unclip the plastic pins is start with the front then once you reach the side boxier part try both sides until you are able to undo one. Try shimmying the back around a little bit to especially if one side is especially stuck after you have gotten the other side off for me this was the biggest challenge. It should not take too much force except for where the tapered part meets the boxier part.
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