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The product lines have drifted over the years.

The workstations might have replaceable RAM but like apple some the x line and t line (I think?) have RAM soldered on so no upgrades :(

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The T series ThinkPads are back to being unsoldered the last couple gens. The regular ones anyway. I've got a T14 Gen 5 that I bought to meet the criteria of having AV1 hwdec and upgradeable RAM. It wouldn't surprise me if the T14s was still soldered, but I also avoid the s suffix models. X series is probably doomed for a similar reason (thinness over everything else), though maybe with LPCAMM2 there's some hope.

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