Published May 3, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building PCs, watching anime, or playing Smash Karts on his RTX 3080 (sigh). Sign in to your XDA account For as long as you can remember, SO-DIMM, i.e., the "RAM stick," has been the physical form of laptop memory. SO-DIMM RAM has been around since the late 90s, standardizing older memory form factors. Even after soldered RAM has all but replaced it in ultrabooks, it can still be found in high-end gaming laptops and workstations. Unlike soldered RAM, SO-DIMM memory is upgrade-friendly, allowing you to replace or add modules whenever you feel like. That said, laptop manufacturers could have jumped to a modern memory standard long ago, allowing increased performance, thinner form factors, and upgradability.…