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thewayneWay back on April 29th, I was bitching about why laptops were having their memory soldered in. There's another reason: the further away from the CPU, the more likely the signal will degrade. Makes for tricky motherboard design.
There is new hope, and it is now on the market!
Micron and Lenovo have released a laptop with a new memory design called LPCAMM2. Below is a link to a YouTube vid from iFixit, who is partnered with both companies, who were given a laptop that is now using this tech. The memory module is very interesting, sort of a soft triangle design - unlike any memory that I've ever seen before. It uses built-in compression, which reduces its power requirement, and has all sorts of other advances.
But the net result is that as this standard is adopted by other makers - ARE YOU LISTENING, APPLE?! - we can once again have upgradeable laptops!
The video page has a link to an iFixit blog entry that explains LPCAMM2 in a more detailed fashion, which I have not looked at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3zB9EFntmA
There is new hope, and it is now on the market!
Micron and Lenovo have released a laptop with a new memory design called LPCAMM2. Below is a link to a YouTube vid from iFixit, who is partnered with both companies, who were given a laptop that is now using this tech. The memory module is very interesting, sort of a soft triangle design - unlike any memory that I've ever seen before. It uses built-in compression, which reduces its power requirement, and has all sorts of other advances.
But the net result is that as this standard is adopted by other makers - ARE YOU LISTENING, APPLE?! - we can once again have upgradeable laptops!
The video page has a link to an iFixit blog entry that explains LPCAMM2 in a more detailed fashion, which I have not looked at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3zB9EFntmA
