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Only recently. It started out as soldered to the main board.

• brookst 2y ago
  No, it started out as chips in sockets. I (dimly) remember upgrading my II+, I think from 32kb to 48kb? A lot has changed.
  • lazide 2y ago
    EEPROM like DIP packaging where it was damn near impossible to pull without bending a pin and/or smacking your hand on something? God forbid someone steps on it too, I think I might still have some scars on my feet.
    • brookst 2y ago
      And remember how the pins were a little too wide, so as to ensure tension against the socket, so you had to put one side in and apply pressure to get the other side? How many chips did I just fold over or bend even just inserting? Many.
      • lazide 2y ago
        Nightmare material.
• klausa 2y ago
  M1 Macs started shipping in late 2020, so, for some definitions of "recently", sure. It's true for any laptops that can be reasonably described as having a "SoC" and not CPU, anyway. (I guess you could be extremely pedantic and try to argue that T2 counted as SoC? But clearly not what I meant.)