Why is everything soldered in modern laptops?

Why is everything soldered in modern laptops?
How do people fix their individual components if they break after the 2 year waranty goes?

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> Why is everything soldered in modern laptops?
So people couldn't repair/upgrood their laptops.
> How do people fix their individual components if they break after the 2 year waranty goes?
They don't. They buy new laptops instead.

Should have vote libertarian, user.

>Should have vote libertarian, user
Wouldn't have helped. The problem is the average consumer wouldn't consider upgrading anything ever. They'll buy a $300 shittop every year or so until they decide to spend money to finally get a Mac which will last them a little bit longer, then they'll stick with it cause it's the best experience they've ever had. Same thing happens with smartphones just at a much faster rate.
It fucking sucks but that's what advertising has done to us.

>Why is everything soldered in modern laptops?
Allows the company to charge you more per gigabyte and forces you to buy a new computer entirely when their shitty cheap 27-level cell NAND dies.

>company makes 6 billion computers
>computers so good you only need to upgrade them
>laptop company goes out of business
>supply chains wither away
>25 years go by
>laptops begin breaking
“thats ok we can buy new laptops from…”

>Should have vote libertarian
he just wants to fix his laptop, not give his kids cocaine

Why didn't it happen with cars?

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Because cars can be repaired

>Should have vote libertarian
Corporations fucking you in the ass is quintessentially libertarian policy tho.

>competition breeds innovation!
actually it breeds company A buying up some of the shit company B needs to bring a better product out to market

>he has never seen the VAG group abominations

You can fix them with a soldering iron
Toyota almost went out of business because of it. That's why new Toyotas aren't bomb proof anymore.

Cars have been incredibly hard to repair. With EVs beyond changing a tire you can't do much to them without shipping back to manufacturer. They're a pain in the ass.

Corporations fuck you in the ass because they use government's monopoly on violence to do that. Every regulation, every agency, every new law was lobbied by corporations to benefit them.

VWs are very repairable. It's just that nobody wants to work on them.
I'll have to look into that about Toyota, I highly doubt it because they've built plenty of sinful things in the past 2 decades.
Most repairs are decently easy on the majority of vehicles. Abuse by the consumer is what causes things to break that shouldn't generally.

t. ex mechanic

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>they've built plenty of sinful things in the past 2
Thats exactly what I'm saying, comparatively 80's and 90's Toyotas were more reliable and easier to fix. Toyota has been overtaken by Mazda for reliability and they aren't great either.

Ehh maybe, back then cars were much simpler. There was a lot less to go wrong. They still have to keep up with the competition.

>cause it's the best experience they've ever had
fuck off jay, macs are unusable

>Why is everything soldered in modern laptops?
The non-meme answer is because using standardized ports (Like RAM ports for example) take up more space and removing ports and directly soldering hardware together saves space. The majority of consumers that use laptops just don't care about any of that stuff because they want lighter and slimmer products. Whether or not that's a good thing is up to you. Real power users that use their computers for jobs usually have a home PC that they use anyways and a laptop is mostly for backup purposes. If you have decent experience with soldering irons and/or a heat gun you'll be able to fix most shit on the laptop.

I'm not at all a macfag, its just what happens. They spend $300 on a pos that doesn't perform very well and claim that PC's suck, then spend >$1k on a meme machine that just werks. They don't realize they aren't making a fair comparison. Advertising is to blame for all of this.

It's cheaper, and if done correctly, far more durable then anything socketed part. You can't escape some form soldering of a component to a pcb. A socket requires at least two PCBs plus a surprising expensive and delicate connector. Plus the socket increases mechanical dimensions.

If you look at any ruggedized embedded SBCs you will see everything soldered.

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