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Intel's lunar lake laptops won't let you upgrade your RAM. Here's why thats fine

For most PC users, it's not a huge deal. Plus, user-upgradeable RAM isn't completely dead.

But business laptops still tend to prioritize configurability, letting a workplace’s IT department crack them open to upgrade RAM when a worker needs more. Intel’s Lunar Lake platform is focused on power-efficient laptops with long battery life to counter the threat of Arm-based processors like the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite. He's also the former editor-in-chief of How-To Geek and a veteran tech journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, PCMag, Reader's Digest, and other publications.

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