Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won’t stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU::LPCAMM2 is a revolution in RAM, but it faces an uphill struggle

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    10 months ago

    Soldered ram can be replaced/upgraded by skilled technicians.

    Ok i know it isn’t the point of your comment and i agree with the whole premise but who, i say who is soldering their own ram? I admit that it should be possible but the limited upgradeability imitations not to mention the skill you’d need… I say it puts soldered ram into the same echelon of “not upgradeable”

    Can anyone speak to this? Am i wrong about the difficulty and hardware limits?

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      10 months ago

      Exactly. Few people are willing to deal with the adhesive used in Macs and smartphones. Even fewer will deal with solder.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, I agree.

      As for who those few are, well, I wouldn’t myself… probably… but I’d definitely like the option of taking my laptop to someone like Louis Rossmann who can do such work. He’s even shown that sometimes the ram gets destroyed by apples weird circuit designs and if it was just soldered on, the laptop and all your data would actually be salvageable.