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Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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317 points diwank | 3 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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throwaway48476 ◴[15 Oct 24 16:22 UTC] No.41850185[source]▶
It is interesting that one of their examples is a "community repair fair", they want to market a sheen of social responsibility without actually taking part themselves.
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giancarlostoro ◴[15 Oct 24 16:42 UTC] No.41850430[source]▶
Lowkey wish their laptops would be as they used to be. Being able to swap RAM or hard drives is so basic but so useful.
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talldayo ◴[15 Oct 24 20:39 UTC] No.41852852[source]▶
Drives in particular. Let them solder the memory if they absolutely have to, but exposing even an empty NVMe slot should be standard for laptops. Unfortunately, Apple makes a pretty penny off the storage surcharge so I wouldn't really anticipate that anytime soon.
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1. franciscop ◴[15 Oct 24 21:14 UTC] No.41853202[source]▶
They no longer even have a "memory" chip anymore, it's all part of the same SOC AFAIK, so they cannot "solder" it.
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2. angoragoats ◴[16 Oct 24 12:52 UTC] No.41858508[source]▶
The RAM is still very much bog-standard DDR4/DDR5 chips, soldered on a PCB right next to the CPU. Here's an example pic of an M3 motherboard. The CPU/GPU is under the metal piece with the Apple logo on it, and the memory is the two rectangular chips immediately above that.

https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/M3-Macs....

3. delfinom ◴[16 Oct 24 17:43 UTC] No.41861703[source]▶
You are thinking of the iPhones.

All the ARM Macs are separate memory chips.