Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer
blitzen@lemmy.ca 19 hours agoNot allowing a 1TB option certainly is a choice, and one that can be criticized. But I don’t think it’s fair to say they could have “easily” made the RAM upgrade (certainly not user upgradable) at that price point. It used the A series because they make billions of them, and ram has not been upgradable in them.
Despair@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
All it takes is putting a SODIM socket into the device instead of soldering in the RAM, making it possible to salvage the device if the RAM begins to fail. It’s a basic laptop, meant for browsing/writing documents, I can’t really see anyone swapping in 16 gb of ram to a device like this, and seeing any performance uplift.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
That is perhaps the silliest thing I can think of regarding these chips. Can you name even a single phone whose RAM is not soldered? Heck, most laptops these days don’t have upgradable RAM.
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, even the effing expensive MacBook pro is no longer upgradable (since the switch to Apple Silicon). You want RAM? Better sell a kidney and buy a new Apple, kid!
blitzen@lemmy.ca 34 minutes ago
Was sometime before that. It’s been close to, if not fully, a decade since the switch to what they euphemistically call “unified” memory.