Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'
baru@lemmy.world 1 week agoIt’d destroy their upsell from 8gb process in one fell swoop.
There’s a video where someone upgrades the memory of an iPhone by cnc’ing the existing memory chip. So basically using a drill to more or less drill the existing chip to get rid of it. Requires crazy precision.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
What the fuck? Like its not even bga or some other kind of soldering?
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSDdU8bJI0 here’s the video.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
So I guess it was UV epoxied after soldering and he put new epoxy on with the new nand. Or something along those lines but the component is soldered in a typical way. The rotary tool being used to pull out the residual phone glue is excellent and I feel like I learned something useful even though I’m never going to do an iPhone ram upgrade.