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16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I looked into it, yea current gen chips aren't compatible with SODIMM

Because they're compatible with the brand new removable RAM standard, CAMM2. It is confusing though, as everywhere I've looked both soldered and CAMM2 were listed as LPDDR5 which is what makes you think it's just soldered RAM. So far it looks like if a spec sheet lists LPDDR5x it should be a CAMM2

CAMM2 is also very very new, so I'm sure a few manufacturers in their rush to get the new/current gen chips out the door just used soldered RAM.

CAMM2 is very exciting, it basically eats into all of Apples listed pros for having soldered in RAM as close to the CPU as possible while still being user removable. (Performance, efficiency etc)