Post #3495522
2026-06-30 17:42 UTC
16 GB DDR4 SODIMM upgrade for my ThinkPad just got delivered.
Purchased it from Amazon. At the time I was looking, it was $109 with a text like "purchase in the next 16 hours for free delivery tomorrow" or something.
I sat on it past the 16 hour window and came back to it like the next day. The price had dropped to $87, without the next day delivery promise.
Sus.
I think I'll sit on that advice more often. Let it expire, watch the price drop, then purchase. Unless I'm in a hurry.
Bastards.
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@atoponce@fosstodon.org 2026-07-01 14:33
This purchase was premature. My laptop is the ThinkPad T480s, which is the slim model of the T480. Instead of 2 SODIMM RAM slots, it has 1 SODIMM and 1 soldered. The soldered RAM is 8GB and is hybrid dual-channel memory. Meaning I can only get 16GB dual-channel and whatever RAM is left in single-channel. My Intel i7-8650U CPU supports 64 GB of RAM, so even though Lenovo officially supports only 16GB SODIMM sticks, the CPU can address 32GB SODIMM. Going to exchange this for a 32GB.