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In a laptop context the advent of soldered on RAM and SSDs has made this a more significant issue though.

That 1TB I thought was enough might not be, and suddenly I need to buy a whole new machine to upgrade.

Are the SSDs often soldered? I thought that was only the RAM.

Depends on the brand/model, of course, but I think for a 13"-sized laptop, it's pretty common to solder in the storage as well.

So you haven’t even changed the battery? That would be impressive durability.

Embarrasingly often! Things I've done specifically:

- Getting cement in the charger port

- Dropping the phone on its screen breaking it

With some phones both of those could be full replacements.