You can't upgrade it?
Edit: I haven't owned a laptop for years, probably could have surmised they'd be more user hostile nowadays.
Edit: I haven't owned a laptop for years, probably could have surmised they'd be more user hostile nowadays.
It's complete garbage. And most of the other vendors just copy Apple so even things like Lenovo have the same problems.
The current state of laptops is such trash
People need to vote with their wallet, and not buy stuff that goes against their principles.
> SO-DIMM memory is inherently slower than soldered memory. Moreover, considering the fact that SO-DIMM has a maximum speed of 6,400MHz means that it won’t be able to handle the DDR6 standard, which is already in the works.
The question remains unanswered. Perhaps I didn't see it for sale or Bob in accounting just got one and I didn't want to look like I was copying Bob.
Even at scale this doesn't work. Let's say Lenovo switches to making all of their laptops hot pink with bedazzled rhinestone butterflies and sales plummet. You could argue it was the wrong pink or that the butterflies didn't shimmer enough ... any hypothesis you wish.
The market provides an extremely low information poor signal that really doesn't suggest any course of action.
If we really want something better, there needs to be more fruitful and meaningful communication lines. I've come up with various ideas over the years but haven't really implemented them.
Weird conspiracy theories aside, the low power variant of RAM (LPDDR) has to be soldered onto the motherboard, so laptops designed for longer battery life have been using it for years now.
The good news is that a newer variant of low power RAM has just been standardized that features low power RAM in memory modules, although they attach with screws and not clips.
I don't think it's so much "copying Apple" as much as it's learning that they can do things like solder in the RAM to cut costs and discovering that most people won't care and will still buy it.
[...insert sound of old timers laughing at newbies who declared T480/T490 overhyped for no reason because "no one care about upgradability anymore"...]
:)
Both of which seem to be exactly what GP took issue with, and was calling out.