CTO material right there.

The guy who runs the site literally works for Brave. It says so in the about page.

Not even sure why you guys are arguing. All of this can boil down to:

• More RAM is beneficial, especially when it’s shared by the CPU and GPU.
• The biggest bottleneck for most games on the Steam Deck is probably not RAM/VRAM, though.
• Faster memory will probably improve performance more than more memory.
• All of this is entirely dependent on the game or application you’re running.

But the biggest point should be:

• Good fucking luck desoldering and soldering BGA memory chips by hand.

Oftentimes it’s done because it’s cheaper, though oftentimes it’s actually more expensive but they calculate that money from licenses post initial sale gets them more revenue and margin in the end anyway.

Still, even if it always was cheaper for the manufacturer this way, the point here is companies should not be able to control something you physically own once you have purchased it. It’s a dangerous precedent to set and things like this will creep into more and more products if we let it.