[prmoustache]

> Those memory components are now operating at much, much higher frequencies than in the good old days,

Not arguing about the latency but the chips that have been soldered in that article are operating at much, much lower frequencies than some DDR5 DIMMs you can buy to slot on a desktop mainboard supporting an Intel Raptor Lake or Ryzen 7000 series CPU.

[Rinzler89]

I was talking about modern day designs with high frequency and low latency memory, not that older laptop in particular.

Plus, isn't that laptop also thinner than models with slotted RAM? If you're chasing thinness then soldered is the only way to go even if you're not yet limited by frequency/latency.