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Your Phone is an Entire Computer (medhir.com)
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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Not allowing a 1TB option certainly is a choice, and one that can be criticized. But I don’t think it’s fair to say they could have “easily” made the RAM upgrade (certainly not user upgradable) at that price point. It uses the A series because they make billions of them, and ram has not been upgradable in them.

[–] Despair@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

All it takes is putting a SODIMM socket into the device instead of soldering in the RAM, making it possible to salvage the device if the RAM begins to fail. It's a basic laptop, meant for browsing/writing documents, I can't really see anyone swapping in 16 gb of ram to a device like this, and seeing any performance uplift.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

All it takes…

That is perhaps the silliest thing I can think of regarding these chips. Can you name even a single phone whose RAM is not soldered? Heck, most laptops these days don't have upgradable RAM.

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, even the effing expensive MacBook pro is no longer upgradable (since the switch to Apple Silicon). You want RAM? Better sell a kidney and buy a new Apple, kid!

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 points 46 minutes ago

Was sometime before that. It's been close to, if not fully, a decade since the switch to what they euphemistically call "unified" memory.