Compression-mounted laptop RAM is fast, efficient, and upgradeable
No solder required.
No solder required.
Their reason for soldering ram is not usually about space.
As far as I know, it's about access times between the RAM and CPU. It's the same reason SoCs are having RAM integrated.
It’s about cost, space, heat and most of all “MONEY”
If I force you to buy the extra ram upfront because you can’t upgrade it, I can charge a premium for it.
r/techsupportgore will be full of people dropping their ram on those pins and damaging them. Still cool though.
That was one of the things that excited me most from the iFixit video; the (LGA?) pins are a separate part that can be replaced as well. Simplifies the motherboard because then there are just flat pads on there, which means they don't need to include the whole array of fancy pins for a second module if it doesn't ship with one.
Timestamped video link: https://youtu.be/K3zB9EFntmA?t=178
Ooh, that may be a game changer then.
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Makes me wonder why we couldn't have a similar system with CPU's. Accidentally drop the chip into the motherboard? You'd only have to replace £5 worth of parts instead of £500.
I've never had to solder laptop ram. I always buy ones that let me get in there without a complete disassembly.
I'll buy it when its in a laptop with coreboot, which is probably never.
