Comment on New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video

MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They explain in the video that SODIMM socketted RAM is bulky and power hungry. The low power chips used to need to be soldered, but this is a new way to use the low power smaller chips with a socket. That’s the difference.

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  • MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ah, power constraints. yeah that tracks

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    • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And signal integrity. At modern speeds trace lengths are spec’d in mils and dimms can be tough to design for (or just more expensive) so OEMs just solder ram directly.

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• vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Can we have removable batteries again now?

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And the socket can be changed too, if I read the article correctly.

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