With DDR5 RAM prices skyrocketing, some mid-range laptops could soon ship with budget-level specs. TrendForce expects companies like Dell and Lenovo to stock more notebooks with 8GB of memory. These reasonably priced options may no longer handle intense office and gaming tasks.
Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.
EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.
Those soldered low RAM ones are going to be in the dump a lot sooner.
Literally manufactured for the garbage dump.
They do not care about the planned obsolescence of it all.
They absolutely do care. It’s a bonus for them.
Easier to justify making trash.
@ThisGuyThat @Arghblarg
Excellent. Hopefully some of them will have hardware that supports #openBSD that I can pick up for pennies on the dollar. I believe the #thinkpad x1 carbon is already on soldered RAM. I can see many in the #Linux crowd stand to profit handsomely from this, given their much more broad hardware support 😜
#frugalComputing #BSD #recycle
Cheap homelab.
lmao of course it’s gonna be soldered in to push you to higher tiers
Probably single channel too because of course