Tearing down the Dell latitude D410 and D430 (If you don't know, don't do it)

To de-assemble a laptop is used to be my hobby. I had torn down thinkpad ,dell latitude and Compaq laptop long time ago. Here are photos showing how to tear down a Dell latitude D430.


1. Taking off the battery (this is D410 model)

2. Taking off harddriver (this is D410 model)

3. Momory (this is D410 modle)

4. Front cover (this is D410 model)

5.Palm  Part (this D410 model)

6. Front of palm part

7. back of Palm part

8. Front of Base

9. Finish one

10. all the small parts (WLAN, Memory, Bluttooth, harddrive etc...)

Dell latitude model is quite good design and quality, my D430 is almost 5 years and still works fine. I update the OS to Win8 developer preview, it recognized almost all the hardware expect  the finger scan and bluetooth were not function. I noticed it more hotter than running Win7, however it depends its metal case, it  works well.

The laptop were dropped to floor several time, so fat it is fine.

The big disadvantages are the max memory is 2Gb and very slowly hard disk 4200 rpm and 1.8", which is very hard to find replacement.

More information for D430