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But even soldered ram isn’t as bad as in-cpu ram. Soldered ram can be replaced/upgraded by skilled technicians. I don’t think that’s possible at all with in-cpu ram.
Exactly. Few people are willing to deal with the adhesive used in Macs and smartphones. Even fewer will deal with solder.
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.
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.