Microsoft Windows Deadline—10 Days To Update Or Stop Using Your PC

[Steve Litt]

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

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