It’s soldered on this one. Asus has moved to soldered RAM on most of their laptops within 5 years. The part that is absolutely infuriating is the ROG machines don’t have this problem - or at least have half soldered/1 DIMM module setup.[br]
To be honest, I suspect that’s because the buyers of ROG laptops will have no hesitation to cut them off for soldering RAM in a gaming laptop and WILL call them out so bad, they won’t recover.
Please, stop buying Asus laptops until they cut it out with the soldered RAM. I can sort of understand on a super thin ultrabook (but personally, I’d pass even used!) but if the chassis has room or 2 SODIMM slots, it’s unacceptable. Most of the laptops with soldered RAM have room for a pair of SODIMM slots. At this point, it’s a scam to overcharge for memory and because we accept it, they keep doing it.[br]
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more forgiving it - AT ALL. I used to blacklist entire series for one having it as a precaution but didn’t do it for partial soldered (yellow status, discouraged but tolerated) and green lighted machines with fully modular RAM for a few years. ''The problem is that tolerance has led to the Intel Evo spec (RAM is soldered on all of these due to having to be Evo certified) and manufacturers soldering standard DDRX RAM more and more. It can no longer be overlooked if we want to see modular RAM be more commonplace :-(. I take it one step further personally and make it where the WLAN/WWAN* cards, RAM and SSD have to be socketed. I highly encourage others reading this to take it as far as I do - anything you need to service from time to time=do not buy.[br]
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more forgiving it - AT ALL. I used to blacklist entire series for one having it as a precaution but didn’t do it for partial soldered (yellow status, discouraged but tolerated) and green lighted machines with fully modular RAM for a few years. ''The problem is that tolerance has led to the Intel Evo spec (RAM is soldered on all of these due to having to be Evo certified - usually DDR4X or DDR5X GPU memory, or soldered DDR4 that is Evo certified) and manufacturers soldering standard DDRX RAM more and more. It can no longer be overlooked if we want to see modular RAM be more commonplace :-(. I take it one step further personally and make it where the WLAN/WWAN* cards, RAM and SSD have to be socketed. I highly encourage others reading this to take it as far as I do - anything you need to service from time to time=do not buy.[br]
*This is usually only found on business class notebooks.''***
It’s soldered on this one. Asus has moved to soldered RAM on most of their laptops within 5 years. The part that is absolutely infuriating is the ROG machines don’t have this problem - or at least have half soldered/1 DIMM module setup.[br]
To be honest, I suspect that’s because the buyers of ROG laptops will have no hesitation to cut them off for soldering RAM in a gaming laptop and WILL call them out so bad, they won’t recover.
Please, stop buying Asus laptops until they cut it out with the soldered RAM. I can sort of understand on a super thin ultrabook (but personally, I’d pass even used!) but if the chassis has room or 2 SODIMM slots, it’s unacceptable. Most of the laptops with soldered RAM have room for a pair of SODIMM slots. At this point, it’s a scam to overcharge for memory and because we accept it, they keep doing it.[br]
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more forgiving it - AT ALL. I used to blacklist entire series for one having it as a precaution but didn’t do it for partial soldered (yellow status, discouraged but tolerated) and green lighted machines with fully modular RAM for a few years. ''The problem is that tolerance has led to the Intel Evo spec (RAM is soldered on all of these due to having to be Evo certified) and manufacturer soldering standard DDRX RAM more and more. It can no longer be overlooked if we want to see modular RAM be more commonplace :-(. I take it one step further personally and make it where the WLAN/WWAN* cards, RAM and SSD have to be socketed. I highly encourage others reading this to take it as far as I do - anything you need to service from time to time=do not buy.[br]
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more forgiving it - AT ALL. I used to blacklist entire series for one having it as a precaution but didn’t do it for partial soldered (yellow status, discouraged but tolerated) and green lighted machines with fully modular RAM for a few years. ''The problem is that tolerance has led to the Intel Evo spec (RAM is soldered on all of these due to having to be Evo certified) and manufacturers soldering standard DDRX RAM more and more. It can no longer be overlooked if we want to see modular RAM be more commonplace :-(. I take it one step further personally and make it where the WLAN/WWAN* cards, RAM and SSD have to be socketed. I highly encourage others reading this to take it as far as I do - anything you need to service from time to time=do not buy.[br]
*This is usually only found on business class notebooks.''***
It’s soldered on this one. Asus has moved to soldered RAM on most of their laptops within 5 years. The part that is absolutely infuriating is the ROG machines don’t have this problem - or at least have half soldered/1 DIMM module setup.[br]
To be honest, I suspect that’s because the buyers of ROG laptops will have no hesitation to cut them off for soldering RAM in a gaming laptop and WILL call them out so bad, they won’t recover.
Please, stop buying Asus laptops until they cut it out with the soldered RAM. I can sort of understand on a super thin ultrabook (but personally, I’d pass even used!) but if the chassis has room or 2 SODIMM slots, it’s unacceptable. Most of the laptops with soldered RAM have room for a pair of SODIMM slots. At this point, it’s a scam to overcharge for memory and because we accept it, they keep doing it.[br]
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more forgiving it. If you have room for dual SODIMM slots and ANY OF IT is soldered, I don’t touch it and if anyone asks, I WILL call you out. If you can accept a thicker laptop for high modularity, we need to say no to soldered RAM, SSDs, wireless cards and WWAN cards.***
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more forgiving it - AT ALL. I used to blacklist entire series for one having it as a precaution but didn’t do it for partial soldered (yellow status, discouraged but tolerated) and green lighted machines with fully modular RAM for a few years. ''The problem is that tolerance has led to the Intel Evo spec (RAM is soldered on all of these due to having to be Evo certified) and manufacturer soldering standard DDRX RAM more and more. It can no longer be overlooked if we want to see modular RAM be more commonplace :-(. I take it one step further personally and make it where the WLAN/WWAN* cards, RAM and SSD have to be socketed. I highly encourage others reading this to take it as far as I do - anything you need to service from time to time=do not buy.[br]
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*This is usually only found on business class notebooks.''***
It’s soldered on this one. Asus has moved to soldered RAM on most of their laptops within 5 years. The part that is absolutely infuriating is the ROG machines don’t have this problem - or at least have half soldered/1 DIMM module setup.[br]
To be honest, I suspect that’s because the buyers of ROG laptops will have no hesitation to cut them off for soldering RAM in a gaming laptop and WILL call them out so bad, they won’t recover.
Please, stop buying Asus laptops until they cut it out with the soldered RAM. I can sort of understand on a super thin ultrabook (but personally, I’d pass even used!) but if the chassis has room or 2 SODIMM slots, it’s unacceptable. Most of the laptops with soldered RAM have room for a pair of SODIMM slots. At this point, it’s a scam to overcharge for memory and because we accept it, they keep doing it.[br]
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more - if you have room for dual SODIMM slots and ANY OF IT is soldered, I don’t touch it. If you can accept a thicker laptop for high modularity, we need to say no to soldered RAM.***
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more forgiving it. If you have room for dual SODIMM slots and ANY OF IT is soldered, I don’t touch it and if anyone asks, I WILL call you out. If you can accept a thicker laptop for high modularity, we need to say no to soldered RAM, SSDs, wireless cards and WWAN cards.***
It’s soldered on this one. Asus has moved to soldered RAM on most of their laptops within 5 years. The part that is absolutely infuriating is the ROG machines don’t have this problem - or at least have half soldered/1 DIMM module.[br]
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To be honest, I suspect that’s because the buyers of ROG laptops will have no hesitation to cut them off for soldering RAM in a gaming laptop and WILL call them out so bad they won’t recover.
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It’s soldered on this one. Asus has moved to soldered RAM on most of their laptops within 5 years. The part that is absolutely infuriating is the ROG machines don’t have this problem - or at least have half soldered/1 DIMM module setup.[br]
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To be honest, I suspect that’s because the buyers of ROG laptops will have no hesitation to cut them off for soldering RAM in a gaming laptop and WILL call them out so bad, they won’t recover.
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Please, stop buying Asus laptops until they cut it out with the soldered RAM. I can sort of understand on a super thin ultrabook (but personally, I’d pass even used!), but if the chassis has room or 2 SODIMM slots no, it’s unacceptable. Most of the laptops with soldered RAM have room for a pair of SODIMM slots. It’s a scam to overcharge for memory at this point, and it only hurts us because they’re too lazy to make it work.[br]
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Please, stop buying Asus laptops until they cut it out with the soldered RAM. I can sort of understand on a super thin ultrabook (but personally, I’d pass even used!) but if the chassis has room or 2 SODIMM slots, it’s unacceptable. Most of the laptops with soldered RAM have room for a pair of SODIMM slots. At this point, it’s a scam to overcharge for memory and because we accept it, they keep doing it.[br]
***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more - if you have room for dual SODIMM slots and ANY OF IT is soldered, I don’t touch it. If you can accept a thicker laptop for high modularity, we need to say no to soldered RAM.***
It’s soldered on this one. Asus has moved to soldered RAM on most of their laptops within 5 years. The part that is absolutely infuriating is the ROG machines don’t have this problem - or at least have half soldered/1 DIMM module.[br]
To be honest, I suspect that’s because the buyers of ROG laptops will have no hesitation to cut them off for soldering RAM in a gaming laptop and WILL call them out so bad they won’t recover.
Please, stop buying Asus laptops until they cut it out with the soldered RAM. I can sort of understand on a super thin ultrabook (but personally, I’d pass even used!), but if the chassis has room or 2 SODIMM slots no, it’s unacceptable. Most of the laptops with soldered RAM have room for a pair of SODIMM slots. It’s a scam to overcharge for memory at this point, and it only hurts us because they’re too lazy to make it work.[br]
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more - if you have room for dual SODIMM slots and ANY OF IT is soldered, I don’t touch it.***
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more - if you have room for dual SODIMM slots and ANY OF IT is soldered, I don’t touch it. If you can accept a thicker laptop for high modularity, we need to say no to soldered RAM.***
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered OR at least provide a SODIMM slot with partially soldered RAM but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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It’s soldered on this one. Asus has moved to soldered RAM on most of their laptops within 5 years. The part that is absolutely infuriating is the ROG machines don’t have this problem - or at least have half soldered/1 DIMM module.[br]
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To be honest, I suspect that’s because the buyers of ROG laptops will have no hesitation to cut them off for soldering RAM in a gaming laptop and WILL call them out so bad they won’t recover.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut it out with this crap. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it (especially since you don’t gain a lot of thickness with a SODIMM), but I’d get it. Soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules is just evil. Even if they soldered part of the RAM down and had a SODIMM slot, that would have been acceptable. Having zero room to expand the RAM is not acceptable.
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Please, stop buying Asus laptops until they cut it out with the soldered RAM. I can sort of understand on a super thin ultrabook (but personally, I’d pass even used!), but if the chassis has room or 2 SODIMM slots no, it’s unacceptable. Most of the laptops with soldered RAM have room for a pair of SODIMM slots. It’s a scam to overcharge for memory at this point, and it only hurts us because they’re too lazy to make it work.[br]
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***I used to tolerate partially soldered RAM in these machines, but no more - if you have room for dual SODIMM slots and ANY OF IT is soldered, I don’t touch it.***
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered OR at least provide a SODIMM slot with partially soldered RAM but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut it out with this crap. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it (especially since you don’t gain a lot of thickness with a SODIMM), but I’d get it. Soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules is just evil. Even if they soldered part of the RAM down and had a SODIMM slot, that would have been acceptable. Having zero room to expand the RAM is not acceptable.
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(minor layout changes required) or partially soldered RAM, having a completely un-upgradeable RAM configuration is unacceptable.
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered OR at least provide a SODIMM slot with partially soldered RAM but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules (minor layout changes required) or partially soldered RAM, having a completely un-upgradeable RAM configuration is unacceptable.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut it out with this crap. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it (especially since you don’t gain a lot of thickness with a SODIMM), but I’d get it. Soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules is just evil. Even if they soldered part of the RAM down and had a SODIMM slot, that would have been acceptable. Having zero room to expand the RAM is not acceptable.
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(minor layout changes required) or partially soldered RAM, having a completely un-upgradeable RAM configuration is unacceptable.
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered OR at least provide a SODIMM slot with partially soldered RAM but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules (minor layout changes required) or partially soldered RAM is unacceptable.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules (minor layout changes required) or partially soldered RAM, having a completely un-upgradeable RAM configuration is unacceptable.
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered OR at least provide a SODIMM slot with partially soldered RAM but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules with minor layout changes is unacceptable.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules (minor layout changes required) or partially soldered RAM is unacceptable.
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered OR at least provide a SODIMM slot with partially soldered RAM but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules is unacceptable.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules with minor layout changes is unacceptable.
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules is unacceptable. The Q402 has a SODIMM so this is purely a move to nudge people to the more expensive machine or make you pay for the extra RAM for no good reason.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules is unacceptable.
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules is unacceptable.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules is unacceptable. The Q402 has a SODIMM so this is purely a move to nudge people to the more expensive machine or make you pay for the extra RAM for no good reason.
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should. If it was an ultrabook I’d have an issue with it but I’d get it, but soldering it in a laptop where you have room for side by side SODIMM modules is unacceptable.
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying. The laptops have room for a SODIMM - they just solder it to ensure that you pay 100x more for RAM then you should.
It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.
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People need to stop buying ASUS laptops until they cut this crap out. It’s old, tired and annoying.
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It’s soldered. All of the Asus budget notebooks made in the past 5 years seem to have soldered RAM :(. The annoying part is the ROG machines aren’t soldered but I strongly suspect that’s because someone buying a gaming laptop can smell a rat so they don’t want the ROG line to be on the rat list.