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The soldered RAM dissuaded me from buying a XPS13. My 6 year old T460s is dying after one too many drops. The XPS13 and Thinkpad X1 Carbon are the final choic
by ww520 5y ago
The soldered RAM dissuaded me from buying a XPS13. My 6 year old T460s is dying after one too many drops. The XPS13 and Thinkpad X1 Carbon are the final choices for replacement, but all of them have soldered RAM and cannot be upgraded. Also the XPS13 keyboard is worse than the Thankpad (why don't Dell fix the PgUp/PgDown layout?). Finally I settled on the AMD Ryzen 7 Pro based T14. The RAM is expandable. And the CPU performance is double of the i7! It's cheaper even after max out on 4k display and ssd drive.
- grumpyprole 5y agoIt's not as simple as soldered versus socketed. There are no DIMMs for low power LPDDR4 RAM, so if you buy a machine with DIMMs, the battery life is slightly worse. This is especially noticeable when the machine is sleeping. I just buy twice the RAM I really need, to help future proof it. Although the disadvantage of this is that one is often forced into buying hotter and noiser Intel chips.
- ww520 5y agoVery good information to know. The model I picked has 16gb soldered RAM (hopefully LPDDR4?) and the expandable socket, allowing up to 96gb. Most xps13 and x1 models have 16gb soldered. Only one model of either has 32gb max.
- grumpyprole 5y agoThe T14 has DDR4 RAM instead of LPDDR4, in order that it can support DIMMs. Even the soldered portion will still be DDR4. The X1 has LPDDR4.