IT dingus from Germany who’ll move to Australia soon™

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  • For most common users they don’t care. They don’t even know what soldered RAM is.

    They should, because when it’s time to sell the laptop one with soldered RAM is gonna be worth a lot less (at least to me).

    Chromebooks with low RAM are fine for many use cases. I’ve got a chromebook with only 4GB of RAM and its perfectly fine for web browsing or watching streaming which is the only things I use it for.

    Fair, but there’s still the potential of it becoming a paperweight if the RAM chips give out or Google forces AI shit into ChromeOS.


  • Fair enough. Although Asus sells at least one laptop with 8 GB of soldered RAM, too.

    Granted, it’s “only” a Chromebook, but still.

    Soldered RAM is almost always a bad thing, no matter the size. Maybe when it’s the most the mainboard can support it’s not too bad but even then you’re out of luck if it ends up dying.

    As far as I understand Apple is partly doing it because of the higher memory bandwidth, which is necessary for the way macOS manages memory. I still don’t like it but at least they’re doing it for a reason.