I would guess it's due to the platform. The Intel U and P series starting with the 12th gen almost exclusively have soldered memory per the platform reference design. Adding memory slots can obviously be done with some tweaking to the signaling rate but few OEM's seem to bother until you work your way up to the HX series, at which point the machine is larger anyway. The Dragonfly is a thin and light mobile workstation so the memory slots would probably have to be zero-z (slot on the edge of the board, not mounted on) in order to maintain their desired thickness.
Many ultra book (most) have the soldered ram because its much more low profile. SODIMM is much to thick in this segment. Thats why DELL released that new ram standard, that has now been adopted by others, because its much more low profile and can have up to 128GB of ram per card (duall channel is on one card, instead of 2). Ive posted a link about it.
This DragonFly series is a business class workbook and HP made it thin and intentionally less upgradable. I bought a FireFly G9 - that has two SODIMMs upgradable to whatever the CPU allows even if the processor is U or P series. The Studio and Fury are also upgradable. So yeah, OEMs can make thin and upgradable/serviceable laptops, if they desire so.
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Unashamed_unoriginal_username_x86 - Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - link
"configured with a 400-nit WUXGA+ screen, a 1000-nit Sure View Reflect panel, or a 3K2K OLED 400-nit display"eeeeeeeeeeeeee why can't they just say 1600p and 2000p or whatver
meacupla - Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - link
Not to excuse the weird "WUXGA+" naming, but they are using a 3:2 panel, so having both vertical and horizontal pixel count would probably be better.WUXGA+ is 1920x1280
3K2K is 3000x2000
goatfajitas - Friday, January 6, 2023 - link
They should really just dump both useless designations and state the damn resolution.PeachNCream - Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - link
Sad about the soldered RAM, but there are lots of other laptops out there that still have SODIMM slots so its not the end of the world.Samus - Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - link
I would guess it's due to the platform. The Intel U and P series starting with the 12th gen almost exclusively have soldered memory per the platform reference design. Adding memory slots can obviously be done with some tweaking to the signaling rate but few OEM's seem to bother until you work your way up to the HX series, at which point the machine is larger anyway. The Dragonfly is a thin and light mobile workstation so the memory slots would probably have to be zero-z (slot on the edge of the board, not mounted on) in order to maintain their desired thickness.At least the NVMe are still upgradable.
meacupla - Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - link
SODIMM makes sense with DDR4, but not with DDR5.Seeing as most intel 12th gen and 13th gen laptops are configured with a minimum of 16GB, I don't see the issue with LPDDR5.
The better alternative to SODIMM is CAMM.
Samus - Thursday, January 5, 2023 - link
I haven't even touched a physical DDR5 SODIMM yet.HideOut - Friday, January 27, 2023 - link
Many ultra book (most) have the soldered ram because its much more low profile. SODIMM is much to thick in this segment. Thats why DELL released that new ram standard, that has now been adopted by others, because its much more low profile and can have up to 128GB of ram per card (duall channel is on one card, instead of 2). Ive posted a link about it.https://www.storagereview.com/review/dell-camm-dra...
Ananke - Friday, February 3, 2023 - link
This DragonFly series is a business class workbook and HP made it thin and intentionally less upgradable. I bought a FireFly G9 - that has two SODIMMs upgradable to whatever the CPU allows even if the processor is U or P series. The Studio and Fury are also upgradable. So yeah, OEMs can make thin and upgradable/serviceable laptops, if they desire so.creed3020 - Saturday, January 7, 2023 - link
The gallery has every photo doubled which is odd.