Why is the ram soldered? Soldered cpu is unfortunately a standard nowadays in laptops and sffs, but they rarely die, (actually I never met a cpu which died during normal usage), but ram is a thing which should be replaceable. I wouldn’t expect this from framework.
Just don’t look for any memory slots — it’s soldered. “We spent months working with AMD to explore ways around this but ultimately determined that it wasn’t technically feasible to land modular memory at high throughput with the 256-bit memory bus,” writes Framework.
I thought framework is a manufacturer that presents itself as a brand for sustainable and diy friendly devices. Here they had to choose between memory bus bandwith and user replaceable parts, and they sided against their previous ethos. I’m disappointed.
Why is the ram soldered? Soldered cpu is unfortunately a standard nowadays in laptops and sffs, but they rarely die, (actually I never met a cpu which died during normal usage), but ram is a thing which should be replaceable. I wouldn’t expect this from framework.
Linus Tech Tips did a video, they had someone from framework and they actually gave a straight answer:
AMD worked with framework to try and implement user upgradable ram, but even with CAMM modules the signal integrity wasn’t good enough.
I’m pretty sure motherboards with integrated graphics and removable memory exist. “Good enough” is such an explicit unit of measurement.
Answered in the article?
I thought framework is a manufacturer that presents itself as a brand for sustainable and diy friendly devices. Here they had to choose between memory bus bandwith and user replaceable parts, and they sided against their previous ethos. I’m disappointed.