Compression-mounted laptop RAM is fast, efficient, and upgradeable

The first laptop pinch LPCAMM2 representation is yet here. The folks astatine iFixit sewage their hands connected nan Lenovo ThinkPad P1 (Gen 7), which uses LPDDR5X representation successful an LPCAMM2 module that you tin upgrade aliases switch by simply unscrewing from nan laptop’s motherboard.

That’s a awesome alteration from existing LPDDR representation successful astir modern laptops. This type of representation is typically soldered onto nan motherboard, making it overmuch much difficult to upgrade. LPCAMM2 — aliases Low-Power Compression-Attached Memory Module — offers modularity without losing nan powerfulness ratio of LPDDR.

Traditional DDR RAM uses SODIMM sticks that slot into nan motherboard, overmuch for illustration connected desktop PCs. As pointed retired by iFixit, LPDDR is overmuch much power-efficient, but it needs to beryllium soldered straight to nan mainboard, arsenic adjacent to nan processor arsenic possible. Up until now, manufacturers person had to take betwixt upgradeable RAM and power-efficient RAM. LPCAMM2 attempts to divided nan quality by cozying up to nan motherboard pinch screws, alternatively than solder. And dissimilar SODIMM sticks, each LPCAMM2 module is dual-channel, truthful you only request one, not two.

As shown successful nan hands-on video posted by iFixit, you tin switch nan LPCAMM2 successful Lenovo’s caller ThinkPad P1 by removing nan laptop’s backing and past taking retired nan battery. From there, you tin return retired nan LPCAMM2 by removing 3 Phillips-head screws.

In summation to Micron, Samsung and ADATA are besides getting successful connected LPCAMM2. That will hopefully mean you’ll beryllium capable to upgrade your representation if it comes pinch a measly 8GB of RAM, but we apt can’t count connected each shaper to make nan shift.