"RAM and hard drive" - those two are not the same. RAM being soldered has legitimate arguments - it reduces latency and power use, as well as costs, and RAM is

"RAM and hard drive" - those two are not the same. RAM being soldered has legitimate arguments - it reduces latency and power use, as well as costs, and RAM isn't a wear part. I'm not endorsing it, but RAM can be justified by argument. In contrast, hard drives don't gain any real latency advantage, and will die before most of the rest of the computer. Soldering in hard-drives is just insane.