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Could you do a demo of unsoldering ram in either a macbook, lenova, or microsoft computer.

Pick any brand or any computer with soldered ram.

 

I'd like to see the process and where you resource your parts and the final outcome.

 

Let's see how you guys do.

 

If it works or fails either way, I'd like to see someone try.

 

I'm sure you can do it.

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1 minute ago, Forgoodnessblakeofficial said:

Could you do a demo of unsoldering ram in either a macbook, lenova, or microsoft computer.

Pick any brand or any computer with soldered ram.

 

I'd like to see the process and where you resource your parts and the final outcome.

 

Let's see how you guys do.

 

If it works or fails either way, I'd like to see someone try.

 

I'm sure you can do it.

 

 

This would be a good idea 

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dosdude1 on youtube has a lot of videos on this. 
It isnt as simple as just desolder the old and solder on the new, you have to reverse engineer the memory eeprom and reflash it to match the new capacity as well. 

if you meant LTT do it, it would make for a very interesting video i guess.

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Welcome to the forums!
This is an incredibly difficult undertaking, but it could be interesting to see a video on, yes. 

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Also it isnt as simple as pointing a heatgun on the rams iirc, you need an actual bga rework station, though ram chips are pretty small so heatgun is quite plausible ig.  resoldering is also something you need to consider and youd need  stencil and either solder balls or paste, though luckily universal stencils exist just cover the unused holes

 

The real pain is ram ic choice and as @OhYou_ mentioned, reprogramming the damn eeprom. Ram ics arent all gonna have the same bga layout and even if they do that doesnt guarantee theyll have the same pinout either which means you may even need an adapter pcb just to get the things to work, even if you get past that theres still eeprom programming. If its a matter of filling unused pads used for extra ram on a higher end option then thatll make things abit easier (order the same ram ic as the existing ones) but not sure if the eeprom programming still needs to be done cause its the same ram ics and a bigger capacity version of your laptop already exists

 

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