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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by franga2000 on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:40AM (#27928899)
I don't think you'll find any. The way I understand it, the savings come from the new LP variant of DDR chips and nobody ever bothered to put them on DIMMs.

And even if the DIMM design (it's more than just a slot) doesn't make sense anymore, we could easily make a new "dumb" memory slot standard that would allow us to swap out the chips directly - like we have for CPUs.

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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by foldr on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:45AM (#27932012)
> we could easily make a new "dumb" memory slot standard that would allow us to swap out the chips directly - like we have for CPUs.

You could, but it would take up a lot of space, given the higher pin count, and would most likely increase power consumption.

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