Are the CPUs in the Macbook soldered to the motherboard or are they socketed?
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It's soldered on there - a most useless innovation if I have every heard of one. Believe it or not, I have heard of soldered on RAM!
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Pressure, you're saying if a processor is soldered, it will result in having the ability of a thinner notebook, is that what you're saying?
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Just look at the 1" MacBook Pro -
it is soldered -
Hmm, interesting, I never really looked deep into the advantages of having soldered CPU, usually when it's bought up everyone just brings up the big disadvantage (can't upgrade CPU)
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I don't think that soldering a chip on will help dissipate heat or make a notebook thinner. If you think about it, having a socket system means that there will be more surface area for heat dissipation. (think about pins vs solder)
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I believe the thinner aspect of it, as it makes sense. They wouldn't need ZIF at all if they solder a CPU chip, as it would be completely pointless and because of the absence of having a ZIF to hold a CPU, you shave off some height.
Macbook CPU - Solder or Socket?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by RogueMonk, Jul 30, 2006.