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I don't have a garage to keep equipment that I will use once in 3 years, I don't have scraps to resolder and that's probably true for most people. For whatever

I don't have a garage to keep equipment that I will use once in 3 years, I don't have scraps to resolder and that's probably true for most people. For whatever reason a real repairshop is a lot harder to find than a laundrette - I was looking for one to fix a GPU, and I could not find one.

colejohnson66 5y ago
These sockets cost $60 a piece.[0] Four of them alone is already ~$250. Add manufacturer markup, and you’re looking at an extra $300 to the consumer. If manufacturers want to make RAM replaceable, they should be putting SO-DIMM slots (which cost single digits),[1] not BGA sockets. After all, the average consumer is more likely to know how to procure RAM sticks than raw BGA RAM from DigiKey, Mouser, etc. [0]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001841972537.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001841972537.html [1]: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/10033854-052FSLF/1001323 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/10033854-052FSLF/...