Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Intel Abandons Non-Upgradeable RAM Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 19:09:20 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:09:20 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4e68ee1a360da2b2ba4c85065474309e"; logging-data="532015"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18hrzQbU2u6n1/hJvNOCcAX" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r4i3N1tsxUY++NghdGXbHUJtVxg= Bytes: 1495 Apple’s ARM-based machines get a lot of their performance boost from tightly integrating the CPU and RAM package, to the point where the RAM is no longer upgradeable. Intel tried to do the same thing with its “Lunar Lake” laptop chips. Now it says that was a mistake, and the next generation of laptop chips will go back to having upgradeable RAM again. Some have tried to claim that Apple’s monolithic approach is the way forward, that other vendors were bound to copy it. But I always saw it as an evolutionary dead end.