We have a review on Dell Inspiron 14R, now we will dismantle Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 with the turns of keyboard, screen, and internal structure etc.
Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 Keyboard Disassembly

To begin with, remove all the visible screws on the bottom of the Dell Inspiron 14R, then we can remove the keyboard.

Two dead bolts are fixing the 14R N4010’s keyboard and the motherboard.

The metal dead bolt on the back side of Inspiron 14R keyboard which is with waterproof design.

There is no any additional screw on the keyboard and palmrest.

Inspiron 14R N4010 C panel is removed completed and the panel is with inbody design.

Inspiron 14R C pane back side; beside the metal panel on the left side, it uses stiffener to ensure hardness of the laptop.

Dell Inspiron 14R Power Switch Circuit Board

Dell Inspiron 14R C side panel details

Metal plate is at the top of the drive, the role of the largest hole is to protect the optical drive motor.

Touch pad and key circuit board two cables were connected motherboard cables and keys 、main touch pad cables.

Dell 14R touchpad circuit details
Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 Screen Disassembly

It is easy to dismantle the 14R screen; you can take actions with the left side and right side axle plate fixed screen of the screen.

Dell Inspiron 14R screen bracket has been removed.

Inspiron 14R screen bracket made of the plastic material

We can see screen line, wireless antennas, video cameras and other components on the screen whose bracket has been removed.

Dell 14R features a Samsung screen.

This is the camera; circuit board designs with a horizontal length which is a compact.

Here are the two 14R wireless antennas under the metal pieces, and the composite material will not have too much interference in the formation of the wireless signal.

The metal screen fixtures look very sturdy.

The whole bottom side about Dell 14R

Remove the motherboard and we can see the bottom design and workmanship is very good

The bottom side of Dell14R, which is separated from the screen
Dell Inspiron 14R Disassembly

Removed the screen, we can see that Dell Inspiron 14R motherboard is divided into three parts.

Demolition of the remaining two motherboards is to remove the above motherboard firstly.

Below the panels, there is stiffening bar to enhance the overall solidity

On the up right side of the 14R bottom body, we can see a USB, one set of audio interfaces and wireless network card.

The bottom body surface, we see the details are quite delicate and the shielded network is used to shield electromagnetic radiation.

The details under the Dell Inspiron 14R driver, we can see the criss-cross stiffening bar to strengthen and enhance body strong degree

And near the drive, the stiffening bar is obvious too.

Dell Inspiron 14R speaker unit

The front side of speaker unit with larger diameter
Dell Inspiron 14R motherboard design and details analysis

Details of the motherboard on the up right side, we can see the wireless network card and a high-Mini PCIE slot welding position

There is the hard drive under the opening on the motherboard, and the opening is also to protect the hard disk drive motor.

The detail about the left below side of the body, we can see the card reader, Bluetooth Module

14R’s cooling fan, the cable to the top is connected with small board and major motherboard.

Dell Inspiron 14R motherboard details

Motherboard components, welding and the details of the design is very neat wiring board

Dell Inspiron 14R major motherboard front side

Dell Inspiron 14R major motherboard back side

Inspiron 14R cooling system design of a single copper brass radiator with larger diameter at the top of the middle of heat sink for processor and memory for graphics card, the left side cooling panel is to cool PCH chip.

We can see from the back of cooling system that heat sink also covers part of the power supply unit of the device which can achieve better heat dissipation.

Large diameter copper and heat sink covering a larger area are the basis of the excellent heat dissipation.

Copper is not only in relatively large diameter and but also in lager thickness.

Inspiron 14R motherboard after removing the cooling system.

Dell Inspiron 14R Core i5 430M processor

Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 HD 5470 discrete graphics

Dell Inspiron 14R PCH chip

Dell Inspiron 14R Dual DDR3 memory slots

Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 power supply unit near the processor board

Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 power supply unit near the PCH-chip components

Inspiron 14R card reader and Bluetooth module

Inspiron 14R hard disk and CD-ROM SATA Interface

Inspiron 14R N4010 ATHEROS AR8152 LAN chip

Inspiron 14R REALTEK ALC269 CODEC chip

The right side of the body is the small motherboard, and on the left there is the slot connected wht the big motherboard.

Dell 14R audio input and output jacks and USB port
Dell 14R N4010 Mini PCIE slot for the installation of wireless LAN equipment
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