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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
(www.notebookcheck.net)
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.
EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.
Those soldered low RAM ones are going to be in the dump a lot sooner.
They do not care about the planned obsolescence of it all.
They absolutely do care. It's a bonus for them.
Easier to justify making trash.
Literally manufactured for the garbage dump.
@ThisGuyThat @Arghblarg
Excellent. Hopefully some of them will have hardware that supports #openBSD that I can pick up for pennies on the dollar. I believe the #thinkpad x1 carbon is already on soldered RAM. I can see many in the #Linux crowd stand to profit handsomely from this, given their much more broad hardware support 😜
#frugalComputing #BSD #recycle
Cheap homelab.
lmao of course it's gonna be soldered in to push you to higher tiers
Probably single channel too because of course