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A comment on Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair by minimaul on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:21PM (#32900407)
Soldered RAM isn’t just to be difficult. It has genuine performance & power consumption advantages for DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR4/LPDDR5.

Storage though, I agree with :)

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Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair by kube-system on Monday September 19, 2022 @01:05PM (#32901009)
Yeah, LPDDR sockets don’t even exist. Machines that use this type of RAM have to solder it, there’s no other choice.
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