<div dir="auto"><div>Given your comments, I assume you're a fan of Framework laptops (<a href="https://frame.work/">https://frame.work/</a>).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've considered buying my kids a laptop from them, given the documented ease of future upgrades.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Thanks,<br>Alexander<br><br>Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 10, 2024, 15:21 Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Snyder, Alexander J said on Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:44:03 -0700<br>
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>I have a Samsung Galaxy Book ultra thin and the HDD is a chip soldered<br>
>to the board. How do I know this? My last one failed and I tried to<br>
>repair it. 🤕<br>
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We've come a long way baby. My 1984 Kaypro 2x had all its RAM soldered<br>
directly to the motherboard. I don't recall any daughtercards. So any<br>
repair was a board level repair.<br>
<br>
Of course my Kaypro 2x motherboard was simply a double sided board with<br>
through components, soldering/unsoldering was relatively easy. Now,<br>
with today's multilayered wave soldered boards, Samsung solders the<br>
NVMe to the motherboard.<br>
<br>
We've come a long way baby!<br>
<br>
Many of you know that I'm a huge fan of simplicity, modularity and<br>
parts interchangeability. Samsung's action violates the latter two, and<br>
for troubleshooting purposes forecloses easy parts swapping as a<br>
diagnostic test, thereby violating simplicity.<br>
<br>
A long time ago my buddy Kevin Korb said that Samsung always manages to<br>
get something wrong. With my Samsung TV they withheld a 29 cent<br>
headphone jack and made sure their optical sound output wasn't<br>
compatible with converters. Soldering the NVMe is certainly another<br>
example.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
Steve Litt <br>
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