I blogged about this laptop previously but since then things have gotten better. When I first bought it, it was $499 however Walmart lowered the price to $449 but wouldn’t give me a price adjustment so I returned it and bought a new one.
Since that time the price has been reduced further to $399. Let me tell you why that is such a great deal. Not many laptops are upgradeable these days but this laptop has an accessible NVME M.2 drive (that you would need to clone, or do a fresh install, if you upgrade the drive). It comes with a 256 GB drive however I have a 1TB drive laying around here that I may slap in mine. I just need to figure out how to clone it first. I might have to buy an NVME enclosure as the laptop has no PCIe slot to plug an adapter into.
In addition to that there is an unpopulated SATA drive bay where you can add an additional hard drive. There are 8GB of RAM, 4 of which is built into the main board and a 4GB (PC4-3200) stick in the DDR4 slot. You could change that out to a 16GB stick for a total of 20GB. Lastly you could change the wifi chip if you wanted to.
A514-54-501Z Upgrades (click pics to enlarge)
Let’s summarize:
- Upgradeable NVME Drive
- Can add a second SATA drive
- RAM upgradeable
- WiFi chip can be changed out.