At my last job while doing a lot of win 11 computer replacements, I managed to snag a couple of laptops that were going to be ewasted. One I keot for myself was an early surface. SSD and RAM are soildered to the motherboard so no upgrade or replacement path. Runs warm and the cpu is kinda trash.
Whatever, free computer is free and running mint its usually fine.
Soldered computer components shouldn’t even exist. There are way more downsides with it than up sides - of course it might be faster, but what’s the point if in a year or 2 the capacity will be insufficient. What do you do then? Toss it in the trash?
Honestly, we are going technologically behind. Rather than making proper standards for modularity, they rather make up dozen of excuses of how soldered is actually superior.
At my last job while doing a lot of win 11 computer replacements, I managed to snag a couple of laptops that were going to be ewasted. One I keot for myself was an early surface. SSD and RAM are soildered to the motherboard so no upgrade or replacement path. Runs warm and the cpu is kinda trash.
Whatever, free computer is free and running mint its usually fine.
Soldered computer components shouldn’t even exist. There are way more downsides with it than up sides - of course it might be faster, but what’s the point if in a year or 2 the capacity will be insufficient. What do you do then? Toss it in the trash?
Honestly, we are going technologically behind. Rather than making proper standards for modularity, they rather make up dozen of excuses of how soldered is actually superior.