Anyone have pics? IS it a so-dimm "module/stick" that they soldered in there or are memory "chips" soldered right onto the board. If it's the latter, then they probably did it for space reasons. If it's the former; typical screw the consumer attitude.
<strong>Anyone have pics? IS it a so-dimm "module/stick" that they soldered in there or are memory "chips" soldered right onto the board. If it's the latter, then they probably did it for space reasons. If it's the former; typical screw the consumer attitude.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I haven't seen any pics, but I'd imagine that things are pretty tight in there. The HD in the iBooks wasn't user upgradeable because it was so darn hard to get in there. A deterent to people trying to up the ram would be to make it un-upgradable. And I'm sure that soldering the chips to the board requires less space. Now, why they didn't do 256 instead of 128, I'll never understand...
Well, some wacko <a href="http://www.kodawarisan.com/ug/PowerBook/index.html"; target="_blank">decided to take his powerbook apart</a>. Can anyone read Japanese? Maybe someone can make sense of the pictures. Anyone?
i would guess, when you look at the space it takes, that the chips for 256MB would have taken up too much room on the MB. RAM chips are often 2 sided, so that they can be relatively small and still hold all the RAM you need. if that's 128MB with 4 chips, that means each chips is 32MB. if that's the case, could be Apple is also using the same chips inside the 12" PB that they use inside the iPod, another way to save money.
dunno, it's not that big of a deal to me. 640MB of RAM in a tiny laptop is plenty.
That sorta puts this debate to bed then, there's a legit reason as to why the chips are soldered. Each must be 32MB, as was pointed out, do we know if there are 64MB chips of the same size? And how much would those cost?
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Or if Apple hadn't soldered any chip, the 12" PB could have had a max of 1024 of RAM?
Tell me this ain't so... <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
Why solder the RAM to begin with? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
[ 02-18-2003: Message edited by: PooPooDoctor ]</p>
<strong>Anyone have pics? IS it a so-dimm "module/stick" that they soldered in there or are memory "chips" soldered right onto the board. If it's the latter, then they probably did it for space reasons. If it's the former; typical screw the consumer attitude.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I haven't seen any pics, but I'd imagine that things are pretty tight in there. The HD in the iBooks wasn't user upgradeable because it was so darn hard to get in there. A deterent to people trying to up the ram would be to make it un-upgradable.
Judging by this picture the memory chips are soldered right onto the motherboard (the four black rectangles).
[ 02-18-2003: Message edited by: Fobie ]</p>
dunno, it's not that big of a deal to me. 640MB of RAM in a tiny laptop is plenty.