Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

On 2024-10-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 20:47:30 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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On 2024-10-03 2:10 p.m., rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 10:07:10 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

Being able to repair is great. I am bothered by the fact that
companies think we're too stupid to fix our own units and solder the
stuff to protect the technology from ourselves.

 
Sockets cost money.

 
Is that really their excuse?

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https://superuser.com/questions/1172628/manufacturing-cost-of-socketed-
versus-soldered-chips
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There's a little discussion there. It's more than the cost of the socket.
With modern SMT processes a pick and place machine puts the components on
the board. Usually they are held in place with solder paste although
sometimes adhesive is used. Run the board through a reflow machine and
you're done.
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Think about soldered on laptop memory versus DIMMs. First, the DIMM is an
entirely separate manufacturing step. Then you need to solder the slot and
retained hardware onto the motherboard, which is more complcated than
dropping on SMTs. Finally you have to insert the DIMMs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo677TyaDns
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They don't show it but presumably in a real operation the robot is picking
the DIMMs out a a cassette or some other fixture. More steps, more money.

Easily recouped at the price they're charging for high end computers. I
think it has more to do with making more money. Greed. If you buy a laptop
with 16 GBs and want to upgrade it to 32 GBs, it will cost less (maybe much
less) than $100 with sockets. If you want 32 GBs instead of 16 GBs on a high
end laptop with soldered memory, they're probably going to charge you
another $200 or $300. Same goes for getting a larger SSD. And the cost
difference of soldering 32 GBs on a motherboard instead of 16 GBs, is tiny
when considering that these chips are bought wholesale by the thousands.

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