DrSagacity wrote:
uh, soldered memory on a $1300 laptop. . .really?
No offense, but what does the price have to do with it? This is a device that, at it's thickest, is less than 3/4 of an inch. To pack a logicboard with gpu chipset, RAM, FlashRAM mass storage and a decent sized battery in there, how on earth were they supposed to squeeze in regular SODIMM slots as well? Seriously, just looking at and holding the thing, I would have been astonished it it HAD included user serviceable RAM slots since I would not have been able to figure out where they could be or how they'd crammed them in there.
You are paying for a light and sleek laptop, not a standard chassis full featured one.
It is a new way of thinking, with purely solid state devices like the MBA and tablets and such, but these devices really do ring in the era when an upgrade does indeed mean a replacement.