Recipe for the best diaper-bag companion for a new mom 🙂  After the upgrades, closing the lid yields 2 second suspends and it also awakens just as fast.  Not to mention it has multiple USB ports and SD card reader for offloading and reviewing photos.
Here is dismantled 10v photo in order to install the new SSD and RAM.
The biggest help in the tear down of the machine was one of these: Norton’s universal cleaning stick from CountyComm.
There are many plastic snaps the case uses in place of screws in the keyboard palm rest.  The cleaning stick worked wonders in prying those apart without damage.  There are also ribbon cables that can be easily separated from the motherboard with it.
Resources for doing the upgrades