And by the way, for the repairability folks: replaceable RAM on mobile devices is going away for good reason. Two SODIMMs is 128 bits of multi-GHz bus across multiple cm of board and a connector. That *eats* power. This isn't manufacturers being out to screw us, it's physics.
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Mobile aka phones is fine. Laptops, it is unacceptable
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Replying to @Kelly_Clowers @marcan42
Why? Laptops have batteries same as phones, why would you not want them to last longer?
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A phone needs to last longer than a laptop. Most people don’t need 8 hours on a laptop. 4-5 is fine and we can get that now with amd and intel. What we can’t do is throw away a 1500 computer when we need more ram.
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The last time I upgraded a laptop's RAM after purchase was 6 years ago, and that was because I *expected* to do that when I bought it. Had it not been possible I would've bought it with twice the RAM from the get go. And I'll take battery life over that any day.
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I actually don't remember ever upgrading the RAM on a laptop I or anyone in my family has owned other than that time. What I *have* done is buy used laptops with little RAM and upgrade it though, but always at the start of my ownership.
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Usually by the time more RAM makes sense, a new machine makes sense anyway. There are exceptions, but it's not the norm. Machines get reused for other purposes, for which their existing RAM is fine. Nobody is throwing away laptops because they need more RAM.
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Besides, if you're on any kind of decent usage cycle (>5 years) by the time you might want more RAM we're probably a generation ahead and obsolete RAM is no longer cost effective.
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Now upgrading *storage*, that I've done tons of times. There are many cases when over time you need more space, and Flash drops in price per GB faster than RAM. And there is no performance reason to solder down SSDs. So yeah, I'm happy to complain about that one ;)
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