Comment The irony is that Dell created CAMM to solve this. (Score 1) 219
The article talks about Dell moving to soldered RAM to solve weight and size issues. Dell created the CAMM standard in the first place to solve these very issues. They made the standard available.
But now, after the JEDEC have settled on the CAMM2 standard, Dell are moving to soldered RAM. Seems that there is clearly another reason for the move that Dell just don't want to admit publicly.
They make more money this way. Soldered RAM is cheaper to manufacture, and when people find that a model isn't upgradeable they typically spend more to go for the higher spec unit. Apple worked this out a long time ago, only they didn't stop with RAM, they did that with SSDs as well....