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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
(www.notebookcheck.net)
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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This wouldn't be much of an issue if most of the laptops nowadays didn't come with soldered in ram and no options of expanding.
Exactly. Give me two slots and I don't care if the base model comes with 64kb, that problem will be fixed before I even switch the thing on for the first time.
Apparently there are m.2 NVMe drives with DRAM caches.
I don't know if anyone makes a pure DRAM NVMe drive
it'd forget its contents every boot
but if so, on Linux, you could make the block device a swap partition.
So it remains shit quality even if RAM gets more affordable at some reasonable point in the future.
I boycott those.