Post #2154725
2026-04-23 18:29 UTC
@iFixit soldered RAM ―as in the Dell Inspirons sold to millions of USA K-to-PhD students― are, hands down the worst. we can add external storage drives. there is no such thing for RAM.
honestly, it should be a crime punishable by a 10% of the total gross worth of a company.
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@acsawdey@fosstodon.org 2026-04-23 18:53
@blogdiva @iFixit I wonder if we will ever get CXL pice-attached memory support in any kind of commodity device ... it would be lower performance than main memory but a lot better than even flash storage. Just thinking of all the weird PCIe hacks people have done to attach GPUs to stuff, this would be in the same category.
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@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co 2026-04-23 18:58
@blogdiva @iFixit This is caused by people in suits who will tell you that the cost of a single socket, multiplied by a million orders, will somehow end all sales and destroy the company. I have had such discussions with people who will not listen to reason, and think a penny, times a million, is a billion dollars, so we shipped crap instead of quality. 🤷♂️