It’s a bit first but if their primary motivation was performance improvements they wouldn’t be soldering 16 GB.
If you’re going to weld shoes to your feet, you better at keast make sure that they’re good shoes.
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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoIt’s technically a bit faster, but yeah, I think charging more is the bigger motivation.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Why not? There is a performance benefit to being closer to the CPU, and soldering gets you a lot closer to the CPU. That’s a fact.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Yeah but if you’re only putting 6 GB of RAM on then you’re also going to be constantly querying the hard drive. So any performance game you get from soldering is lost by going all the way to the hard drive every 3 microseconds.
It’s only better performance on paper in reality there’s no real benefit. If you can run an application entirely entirely within the 6 GB of RAM, and assuming you’re not running anything else, then maybe you get better performance.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
And that’s the idea. Soldering memory is an engineering decision. How much to solder is a marketing decision. Since users can’t easily add more, marketing can upsell on more RAM.
It’s not “on paper,” the RAM itself is performing better vs socketed RAM. Whether the system runs better depends on the configuration, as in, did you order enough RAM.
Zink@programming.dev 4 months ago
Sounds like one of those rare cases where engineering and marketing might agree on something.
dojan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Companies primarily make decisions to maximise the profitability of someone and it’s never the consumer.