https://thewayne.dreamwidth.org/ Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 07 May 2024 23:03:48 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios thewayne personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/10956279/2749664 https://thewayne.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://thewayne.dreamwidth.org/1399289.html Tue, 07 May 2024 23:03:48 GMT https://thewayne.dreamwidth.org/1399289.html Way 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.<br /><br />There is new hope, and it is now on the market!<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3zB9EFntmA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3zB9EFntmA</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thewayne&ditemid=1399289" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://thewayne.dreamwidth.org/1399289.html computer hardware laptops public 13