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You seem to know what you're talking about, What is the actual power draw difference of socketed (LPDDR) vs soldered (SO-DIMM) RAM? As someone with 128GB in my
by ctoth 3y ago
You seem to know what you're talking about, What is the actual power draw difference of socketed (LPDDR) vs soldered (SO-DIMM) RAM?
As someone with 128GB in my main workstation and 64 in my laptop this soldered RAM trend makes me so sad. RAM is the cheapest way to improve your compute experience and using massive amounts is how I've otherwise been able to make old machines feel nice to use.
I have a Lenovo T580 from 2018 and with 64GB it's a fantastic machine 5 years later, but I doubt a machine I buy now will be anywhere as good in 5 years as I won't be able to supercharge its memory to what 2028 would consider obscene for a laptop.
- dangus 3y agoMore metal (larger pins) = more electrical resistance. Plus, there’s a physical air gap on a socketed chip. The original LPDDR spec was able to drop voltage from 2.5V to 1.8V.