Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won’t stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU::LPCAMM2 is a revolution in RAM, but it faces an uphill struggle

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. Few people are willing to deal with the adhesive used in Macs and smartphones. Even fewer will deal with solder.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I agree.

      As for who those few are, well, I wouldn’t myself… probably… but I’d definitely like the option of taking my laptop to someone like Louis Rossmann who can do such work. He’s even shown that sometimes the ram gets destroyed by apples weird circuit designs and if it was just soldered on, the laptop and all your data would actually be salvageable.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, people can and will do it. There’s a bunch of places that’ll do ship in ram upgrades on the soldered macs.

      I don’t think the average enthusiast will learn to use a thousand dollar microsoldering bench, but they weren’t using normal soldering equipment either or even really upgrading their pcs to start with, so it’s no big loss.

      Expect bga and other hot air microsoldering repair work to become more common as stuff gets smaller and more soldered on. It’s already common for phones.