[colechristensen]

Soldering RAM isn't for compact size or cost or to keep you from upgrading, it's for speed. Soldered RAM can be physically closer with a faster bus than removable RAM.

[okanat]

With old style DIMMs I can understand this excuse, with LPCAMM though, it doesn't fly.

[dmitrygr]

Yes it does. LPCAMM path is still dozens of millimeters. Soldered on is one mm or less.

[josephg]

Yep. Even the framework seems to be moving to soldered on ram.

[Dylan16807]

If you mean the desktop, there must have been something wrong with that AMD chip. Existing designs with LPCAMM are just as fast.

[okanat]

Yeah, I got downvoted but the people arguing against have no idea of the speeds of the standards. LPCAMM2 offers the same exact speeds as LPDDR5x. It is dumb as a consumer to just accept soldering as an excuse from tech companies.

[heavyset_go]

It's for power efficiency