Non-Socketed memory and storage is more of an upgrade friendly feature rather than a repairability feature. They don’t often fail. And most people do not attempt to upgrade their devices anyway, especially the type of people who are not power users, and are buying low end devices. For most people, upgrades are no longer a purchasing consideration, and they will buy the laptop that’s five dollars cheaper and has more attractive packaging.

And no, Apple is not soldering memory to the main board on most of their computers these days. All of the M series computers have the memory on package with the CPU, because there are latency issues with putting it any further away. The A18 Pro that this laptop uses is package-on-package, the DRAM is directly on top of the SoC.

There are no socketed standards for LPDDR anyway.

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odo1242 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Socketed RAM is fine, but what do you mean by storage doesn’t fail often? It’s usually the first part that fails on any computer.

	▲	kube-system 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not since we got rid of spinning rust. Most common failures are batteries, and the parts of the computer subject to direct abuse by the user: keyboard, connectors, the display, etc.
	▲	cromka 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		My Macbook M1 which I use extensively since 2021: Data Units Read : 1267900331 (649.16 TB) Data Units Written : 904681650 (463.20 TB) power_cycles : 667 power_on_hours : 9611 and yet it's still only: available_spare : 100% available_spare_threshold : 99% percentage_used : 16% I don't expect it to fail anytime soon.

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rkozik1989 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, but what happens when you drop your laptop on the ground and it breaks? Good look recovering data without having to pay a recovery firm a $1000.

	▲	kube-system 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Personally, I restore my Time Machine back up. I’m sure some people might restore their files from iCloud or elsewhere. It’s a pretty bad idea to keep valuable documents on a mobile device. You can’t recover the data from socketed storage if it’s lost or stolen.