Given your comments, I assume you're a fan of Framework laptops (
https://frame.work/).

I've considered buying my kids a laptop from them, given the documented
ease of future upgrades.

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Thanks,
Alexander

Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro

On Sun, Nov 10, 2024, 15:21 Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Snyder, Alexander J said on Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:44:03 -0700
>
> >I have a Samsung Galaxy Book ultra thin and the HDD is a chip soldered
> >to the board. How do I know this? My last one failed and I tried to
> >repair it. 🤕
>
> We've come a long way baby. My 1984 Kaypro 2x had all its RAM soldered
> directly to the motherboard. I don't recall any daughtercards. So any
> repair was a board level repair.
>
> Of course my Kaypro 2x motherboard was simply a double sided board with
> through components, soldering/unsoldering was relatively easy. Now,
> with today's multilayered wave soldered boards, Samsung solders the
> NVMe to the motherboard.
>
> We've come a long way baby!
>
> Many of you know that I'm a huge fan of simplicity, modularity and
> parts interchangeability. Samsung's action violates the latter two, and
> for troubleshooting purposes forecloses easy parts swapping as a
> diagnostic test, thereby violating simplicity.
>
> A long time ago my buddy Kevin Korb said that Samsung always manages to
> get something wrong. With my Samsung TV they withheld a 29 cent
> headphone jack and made sure their optical sound output wasn't
> compatible with converters. Soldering the NVMe is certainly another
> example.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
>
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