Anybody out there have any use for a pair of 8GB PC4-3200 SODIMMs (laptop RAM)? Practically brand new! The system they came out of was delivered last Thursday. OEM is Hynix. Will come in the packaging from the 16GB Crucials that replaced them.

In other news, I am apparently still capable of upgrading the RAM in a laptop without murdering it, which pleases me on several levels. But sweet mother of pearl, our friends at Lenovo made it harder to do that to a Legion 5 than it needed to be.

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>In other news, I am apparently still capable of upgrading the RAM in a
>laptop without murdering it, which pleases me on several levels. But
>sweet mother of pearl, our friends at Lenovo made it harder to
>do that to a Legion 5 than it needed to be.
>

I had this experience with my ASUS ROG recently (sidenote: who makes a gaming laptop, even one a couple gen old, with only 8 GB of RAM? I only use the thing for work these days and that still wasn't enough) and it made me very much miss the old Dell business laptops that made RAM and HD upgrades a breeze.

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>I had this experience with my ASUS ROG recently (sidenote: who makes a
>gaming laptop, even one a couple gen old, with only 8 GB of RAM? I
>only use the thing for work these days and that still wasn't enough)
>and it made me very much miss the old Dell business laptops that made
>RAM and HD upgrades a breeze.

Hell, Lenovo themselves used to know how to do this. My trusty old ThinkPad W510, which I bought from the UMaine gear shop when I went back in 2010, has a little door on the bottom. Undo one screw, pop the door open, hey presto, there's the RAM. Replacing the keyboard was dead easy, too, because it was a modular part that came off from the top. By comparison, the Legion 5 doesn't even have a detachable battery.

I grant you that ThinkPad and Legion are separate product lines with different specializations these days (ThinkPads are for Business and Legions are for Gaming, apparently, because nobody ever does both things with one computer?), but even that distinction is a little weird, because who is stereotypically more likely to want to work on their own computers: business people or gamers? I'm thinking not business people.

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This is the kind of thing I do for a living, and I've noticed a trend towards full back panels rather than smaller, inset panels that are easier to open. Some of those back panels are a -pain-.

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>Hell, Lenovo themselves used to know how to do this. My trusty old
>ThinkPad W510, which I bought from the UMaine gear shop when I went
>back in 2010, has a little door on the bottom. Undo one screw, pop the
>door open, hey presto, there's the RAM. Replacing the keyboard was
>dead easy, too, because it was a modular part that came off from the
>top. By comparison, the Legion 5 doesn't even have a detachable
>battery.

The newer HP laptops have the expansion ram slots above the mother board. Which means instead of taking the back cover off and slotting the ram in... you have to go in from back and remove some screws, then remove the keyboard and remove some screws, then remove some ribbon cables, then take off the plate below the keyboard, and then you can put your extra ram in place, and do everything in reverse. 1.5 to 2 hours worth of work which should take 15 minutes max.

They really don't like techs working on their shit anymore.

DaemeonX

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>They really don't like techs working on their shit anymore.
>
>DaemeonX

No. They really want you to buy a whole new laptop when something breaks now to keep their sales up.

Some Lenovo demand that you pop whole back cover.
Some, which I kinda like, allow one to install/swap memory by pulling up keyboard module and having memory slot directly behind it.

>Some Lenovo demand that you pop whole back cover.
>Some, which I kinda like, allow one to install/swap memory by pulling
>up keyboard module and having memory slot directly behind it.

A few Lenovo do both, for extra added fun (eg. the P53, and probably P73 as well)

Out of curiosity, are you still looking for a home for these? My son has a new laptop that could use more memory than what it came with.

Michael

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>Out of curiosity, are you still looking for a home for these? My son
>has a new laptop that could use more memory than what it came with.

Sure, PM me an address and I'll see about mailing them on Monday.

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