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The reason why laptops are increasingly having their memory soldered in
I knew Apple was one of the first to start doing this around 2015, and it really annoyed me as it forced you into maximizing buying the beast to start with. Now Dell is doing it with some lines, and I expect others will be following.
The reason? Space. Gotta make everything thinner! There's also an advantage in performance, which leads to lower power consumption.
Personally, I'd have no problem with laptops being a little thicker in exchange for being more serviceable and upgradeable! But they don't ask my opinion, so my voice doesn't get heard. I think there's a limit as to how thin things should be: I regularly use a Dell laptop at work, and while it isn't remotely an ultra-thin, you have to use two hands to open it because the hinge stiffness versus the weight in the lower case is too much. Ridiculous and bad design.
End of rant.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/why-laptops-in-2024-use-soldered-ram/
The reason? Space. Gotta make everything thinner! There's also an advantage in performance, which leads to lower power consumption.
Personally, I'd have no problem with laptops being a little thicker in exchange for being more serviceable and upgradeable! But they don't ask my opinion, so my voice doesn't get heard. I think there's a limit as to how thin things should be: I regularly use a Dell laptop at work, and while it isn't remotely an ultra-thin, you have to use two hands to open it because the hinge stiffness versus the weight in the lower case is too much. Ridiculous and bad design.
End of rant.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/why-laptops-in-2024-use-soldered-ram/
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I certainly appreciate that there are definitely needs for very lightweight devices. When we did our river cruise from Prague to Berlin in '15, I bought a Chromebook. Got it both for the weight and I didn't want to risk the possibility of theft of my MacBook. I just needed something for viewing/posting pix and copying flash cards, I didn't want to spend any significant time editing. That thing finally died a couple of years ago. It needed a new battery, but it won't power up when plugged in even.
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https://mile42.net/2011/01/distant-touring-with-the-ipad/
Hmm I suppose I should update this...