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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 49 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (9 children)

Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.

EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.

Another problem manufacturers face is with notebooks that ship with soldered DRAM. In particular, ultrathin designs would need to be revamped to modify their configurations.

[–] ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world 40 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Those soldered low RAM ones are going to be in the dump a lot sooner.

[–] doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

@ThisGuyThat @Arghblarg

Excellent. Hopefully some of them will have hardware that supports #openBSD that I can pick up for pennies on the dollar. I believe the #thinkpad x1 carbon is already on soldered RAM. I can see many in the #Linux crowd stand to profit handsomely from this, given their much more broad hardware support 😜

#frugalComputing #BSD #recycle

[–] ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Cheap homelab.

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