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


No solder required.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. The folks at iFixit got their hands on the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 (Gen 7), which uses LPDDR5X memory in an LPCAMM2 module that you can upgrade or replace by simply unscrewing from the laptop’s motherboard. As shown in the hands-on video posted by iFixit, you can replace the LPCAMM2 in Lenovo’s new ThinkPad P1 by removing the laptop’s backing and then taking out the battery.

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