Oh no - it’s true. They traded modularity for battery on this XPS 13 :-(.
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Admittedly I expected the RAM to be soldered since that’s a XPS 13 staple design fail, but soldering the SSD is where I draw the line. All I know is the soldered SSD has put the XPS 13 onto my do not buy list as an extreme precaution because apparently some of them are soldered, while others are not. The RAM is annoying, but I can sort of understand on a super slim machine - but if you solder it and there’s room for modular RAM then that’s just lazy engineering. BUT the second you solder the SSD on is when I put a entire series of machine onto a “do not buy” list.
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From what I can tell, it’s just the 2-in-1 that’s plagued with this but nonetheless I’m considering both no buys as a cautionary measure.
Oh no - it’s true. They traded modularity for battery on this XPS 13 :-(.
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Admittedly I expected the RAM to be soldered since that’s a XPS 13 staple design fail, but soldering the SSD is where I draw the line. All I know is the soldered SSD has put the XPS 13 onto my do not buy list as an extreme precaution because apparently some of them are soldered, while others are not. The RAM is annoying, but I can sort of understand on a super slim machine. BUT the second you solder the SSD on is when I put a entire series of machine onto a “do not buy” list.
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Admittedly I expected the RAM to be soldered since that’s a XPS 13 staple design fail, but soldering the SSD is where I draw the line. All I know is the soldered SSD has put the XPS 13 onto my do not buy list as an extreme precaution because apparently some of them are soldered, while others are not. The RAM is annoying, but I can sort of understand on a super slim machine - but if you solder it and there’s room for modular RAM then that’s just lazy engineering. BUT the second you solder the SSD on is when I put a entire series of machine onto a “do not buy” list.
Oh no - it’s true. They traded modularity for battery on this XPS 13 :-(.
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Admittedly I expected the RAM to be soldered since that’s a XPS 13 staple design fail, but soldering the SSD is where I draw the line. All I know is if this SSD is soldered, the XPS 13 has made it onto my do not buy list as an extreme precaution because apparently some of them are soldered, while others are not.
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Admittedly I expected the RAM to be soldered since that’s a XPS 13 staple design fail, but soldering the SSD is where I draw the line. All I know is the soldered SSD has put the XPS 13 onto my do not buy list as an extreme precaution because apparently some of them are soldered, while others are not. The RAM is annoying, but I can sort of understand on a super slim machine. BUT the second you solder the SSD on is when I put a entire series of machine onto a “do not buy” list.
It looks like there may be two SSDs: One soldered to the board, and the other is still modular. I took a look at the service manual and did find this:
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Oh no - it’s true. They traded modularity for battery on this XPS 13 :-(.
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Hopefully this SSD isn’t soldered. I expected the RAM to be soldered since that’s a XPS 13 staple design fail, but soldering the SSD is where I draw the line. All I know is if this SSD is soldered, the XPS 13 has made it onto my do not buy list as an extreme precaution because apparently some of them are soldered, while others are not.
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Admittedly I expected the RAM to be soldered since that’s a XPS 13 staple design fail, but soldering the SSD is where I draw the line. All I know is if this SSD is soldered, the XPS 13 has made it onto my do not buy list as an extreme precaution because apparently some of them are soldered, while others are not.
It looks like there may be two SSDs: One soldered to the board, and the other is still modular. I took a look at the service manual and did find this:
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Hopefully this SSD isn’t soldered. I expected the RAM to be soldered since that’s a XPS 13 staple design fail, but soldering the SSD is where I draw the line. All I know is if this SSD is soldered, the XPS 13 has made it onto my do not buy list as an extreme precaution because apparently some of them are soldered, while others are not.