Increasingly common to find the NAND flash chips for the SSD as well as the RAM chips soldered to the board in modern laptops, especially “thin and light” machines; it’s no longer just MACs which engage in this unfortunate habit.
There *are* valid techincal reasons - performance and ever higher frequencies mean the copper traces need to be as short as possible and ideally not go through connectors and having chips soldered direct to the board reduces size and weight (and everyone loves a svelte laptop).
Personally I prefer the possibility of upgrade which is why I went with an XPS as it has socketed RAM and M.2 drive.
He has them both up for sale at the moment, we have someone coming on Friday to look. Seems keen but who knows and they may not even turn up. We will be leaving the UK in a week’s time so if not sold a couple of days before then the smash it to bits route it will have to be
My monitor has started to periodically black out for a second or two. Had a look at the HDMI cable, and along its length, it has been nibbled at by little rodent teeth! Could that be the reason for the screen blacking out now & again?
Shall get a new cable anyway – hope that solves the problem. Need to protect the cable from sharp little rodent teeth somehow!
Thanks, looks good, but from Canada. Am waiting to find out what the delivery costs would be. Doesn’t seem that metal armoured HDMI cables are available in EU so might have to go for flexible metal mesh protective tubing or something like that, which I can use on other cables as well, that get nibbled.
I stopped feeding them weeks ago. Don’t know what they are eating to stay alive. Once the cables are protected I’ll leave some redundant nibbled cable around for them to nibble on. They are cute but pesky!
I misunderstood, sorry. Can’t deprive the cats of their junk food - they like it too much. Their arthritis and old age, and loss of interest in the natural world and its prey, means I remain the chief mouser.
