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I had to send some bad RAM under warranty as well. Another upside with socketed RAM is that I was able to buy a small stick of RAM and get my machine going (although with constrained memory) until I received the new pair, which was a minor inconvenience.

Having soldered RAM would have meant shipping the entire system back, then find a spare system and the trouble of setting up all my softwares until then.