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> But I am pessimistic here as everything seems headed towards that eventuality.

Lots of companies buy average Dell and Lenovo laptops because they are repairable in-house.

That's good to know - but many of their models also have soldered RAM, which is disappointing.

Some of the chips they use are designed for soldered chips. I’m not sure whether that’s because of signal degradation over longer PCB traces and sockets.

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