• beefcat@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    There absolutely is.

    SODIMM slots disappeared from laptops because of technical limitations, and it took an entirely new design to eventually bring socketable RAM back to laptops. And those new sockets still take up more space than just soldering the RAM in place.

    Engineering is all about tradeoffs.