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they used to, though. having a slim laptop is good, but having a repairable and upgradeable laptop is better, they should at least give the consumers the choice.
They don’t do it just for slimness. They do it for signal integrity too. It’s the same reason you can’t get the much faster and lower power LPDDR ram in sodimms. Desktops don’t care about low power so they can blast the voltage. But laptops do, especially at idle.
Would you take a CPU that’s say 25% slower and uses 25% more power just to have it be socketed?
A socketed CPU would not realistically be 25% slower or 25% less efficient. your numbers are overly exaggerated. but to answer your question, I would sacrifice a little bit of performance and power efficiency for upgradeability and repairability.