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v116kzmd@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Dave Archer) writes:

[Re:  question about why a company would solder RAM to motherboard]

> As for why they'd do it..  Probably has to do with cost.  They might claim it
> makes for a more reliable system, but that's fairly silly.  Even the cost issue
> is silly, since sockets are not exactly that expensive.  I've never even heard
> of a modern clone that had non-socketed ram chips in it.  This is perhaps
> another sign of why people keep telling me Packard Bell is not the greatest of
> companys.  
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I suspect the greatest savings from not using sockets comes from being
able to use auto-insertion machines to assemble the board.  Things may
have changed in recent years, but I believe socketted parts must be hand 
inserted.  If you don't use sockets, an auto-insertion machine can
put all the chips on the board and then a wave solder machine can 
solder them all in at once.  Cuts labor cost.  

John Hardin
Hewlett Packard
hardin@hpindgh.hp.com
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