Precision M4800 Upgrades

I have a couple questions.

From what I understand, its impossible to upgrade the screen resolution. I would like to go from the 1366*768 screen I have now to one that is FHD, 1920*1080 but from what Ive seen, this cannot be done. Does anyone on here know for sure if this is possible or not?

Second, I would like to upgrade the M.2 SSD that is in it. I want to go from the 128GB I have now to at least a 256GB. Can this model use a NVMe SSD, or does it have to be the M.2 spec SSD? If I am not mistaken, I have to stick with the M.2 SATA, but Im not certain.

Thanks for your input.

 

M4800 does not work with M.2 drives. It uses the older mSATA standard, and all mSATA drives are SATA-based. The largest available mSATA drive is 1TB.

You should be able to upgrade from 1366x768 to 1920x1080... You might have to replace the display cable as well as the display panel. You'll have to check and see if your M4800 has an LVDS display (older models) or an eDP display (newer models), and purchase an appropriate panel.

 

How can I check this? Do I have to open it up or is there a different way to check?

EDIT: I just figured it out. It uses eDP.

 

very sure you can't fit a m.2 drive into the 4800, the plus point is you can have a mSata and 2 x Sata if forego the disk drive.

 

I have the HDD adapter for the optical drive bay, but I have yet to use it. If it was quickly and easily swapped out, that would be a different story. I do need the optical drive at times so I keep it in.

 

that being the case you can only have 1 x mSata and 1 x Sata HDD, if you keep the optical drive. The adapter would not be plug and play if that is what you mean, the face plate have to be swapped. Anyway 2.5" HDD nowadays comes in 2TB, should be sufficient for most data.

 

Isn't the main 2.5" drive bay hot-swappable? I believe you need the battery out to access the small release slider, but with AC power (and an OS installed on an mSATA), it should be relatively quick.

 

yes the main HDD caddy can be swapped, i have never tried 'hot' with the AC on though

 

Thanks for the input. Per my listed specs, I have one mSATA SSD at 128gb and one 1tb seagate firecuda. I just want to upgrade the SSD to one larger, say 256gb as I’m pushing the 128 with only like 38gb left.


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The 2.5" bay is not designed for "hot swapping" as in with the system powered on. Don't try it.