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[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I assumed that’s what you meant. That machine still uses an SoC with embedded ram. It’s not possible to upgrade it.

It’s more repairable than previous designs, which is great, but that’s different than being upgradable.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yeah and it’s a measly 8 gb of ram, but they are stuck with that because of reusing the A18 SoC from the iPhones which sucks but I’m glad it forced other budget thin and light laptop manufacturers in that segment to wake up and compete