What does this mean?

[rsm5068]

In school we have some Out dated iBooks that are waiting to be replaced in our english department. After checking the specs on these (I was having some issues watching Diggnation on-line) I saw the following image. What does Built-In mean?

 

[angrygolfer]

It's not a removable chip. It is soldered on the system board

 

[AdeFowler]

Soldered to the logic board I guess 😕

 

[TEG]

I believe that Built in means soldered to the motherboard. But there is another slot to allow expansion to 1.5 GB.

TEG

 

[rsm5068]

That's what I was afraid of/expecting.

 

[MacBookJoePro]

Yea. Built-in means that the memory is soldered to the board. There should be an empty memory slot where you can buy more ram to expand. Older laptops including ibooks and powerbooks had memory soldered to the motherboard. Sometime the half the memory would be soldered to the motherboard and the other half was taking up the removable memory slot.

-JoE

 

[tremendous]

'out dated'.

these machines will work completely fine (obvs barring hardware/software issues). my 1.33 powerbook is more than powerful enough for pretty much anything other than video editing stuff - and even then it's not too bad for basic work in imovie).

 

[rsm5068]

'out dated'.

these machines will work completely fine (obvs barring hardware/software issues). my 1.33 powerbook is more than powerful enough for pretty much anything other than video editing stuff - and even then it's not too bad for basic work in imovie).

I say out-dated due to the fact that we received a grant for the next couple of years to replace our current computers and buy new ones. The problem is that the money is released to us over time, not all at once. This year we bought over 650 MacBooks, but that still doesn't put a dent in a school trying to reach 1-to-1 with 3500+ students in it. I don't mean to hate on them, but to do some of our work with higher end video and programming the iBooks just can't keep up.