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Many low end laptops, like some chromebook, feature soldered eMMC. For example, the first thing that I found on the google store, a samsung chromebook[0]. [0]:
by c0balt 3y ago
Many low end laptops, like some chromebook, feature soldered eMMC. For example, the first thing that I found on the google store, a samsung chromebook[0].
[0]: https://www.google.com/chromebook/discover/pdp-samsung-galaxy-chromebook-go/sku-samsung-galaxy-chromebook-go-basic-4gb-32gb/ https://www.google.com/chromebook/discover/pdp-samsung-galax...
- sudosysgen 3y agoThose are quite literally not PCs, though. They are laptops, but they are much closer to a cellphone than to a PC. They're far more comparable to an iPad than to a Mac, if we're still in that comparison.
- hypercube33 3y agoMost of them can boot Windows and are x86-64. How are they not laptops?
- starttoaster 3y agoThey said they are laptops, they’re not PCs. “PC” is a Windows term, traditionally. So a Chromebook is quite literally not a PC. You say they can boot Windows, so that makes the argument a bit less solid, but it wasn’t sold as a PC, then. In my opinion, continuing this line of argument is kind of silly, the point is that most decent consumer laptops that come provisioned with Windows still have replaceable storage. Or maybe I’m just very lucky and all the laptops I’ve purchased did. Even my mini-PCs like Intel NUCs have replaceable storage.
- doubled112 3y agoI had an HP laptop that shipped with Windows 10. 32GB eMMC, not enough to do a feature update. The Celeron and 4GB RAM were not ideal either. I think it was a PC. The low end of PCs is amazingly awful.
- wkat4242 3y agoThat's still a PC, but the letters stand for Piece of Crap, not Personal Computer
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoI have a Lenovo laptop with eMMC. It isn't unusual. Fortunately they had an undocumented M.2 slot inside but that wasn't ever used in a stock configuration.