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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] 53 points 10 months ago* (9 children)

Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.

EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.

Another problem manufacturers face is with notebooks that ship with soldered DRAM. In particular, ultrathin designs would need to be revamped to modify their configurations.

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Those soldered low RAM ones are going to be in the dump a lot sooner.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    @ThisGuyThat @Arghblarg Excellent. Hopefully some of them will have hardware that supports #openBSD that I can pick up for pennies on the dollar. I believe the #thinkpad x1 carbon is already on soldered RAM. I can see many in the #Linux crowd stand to profit handsomely from this, given their much more broad hardware support 😜#frugalComputing #BSD #recycle

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