Well yeah, they’re enough to meet the minimum use cases so they can upsell most people on expensive RAM upgrades.

That’s why I don’t buy laptops with soldered RAM. That’s getting harder and harder these days, but my needs for a laptop have also gone down. If they solder RAM, there’s nothing you can (realistically) do if you need more, so you’ll pay extra when buying so they can upcharge a lot. If it’s not soldered, you have a decent option to buy RAM afterward, so there’s less value in upselling too much.

So screw you Apple, I’m not buying your products until they’re more repair friendly.

I had a extra stick of RAM available the other day so I went to open my wife’s Lenovo to see if it’d take it and the damn thing is screwed shut with the smallest torx screws I’ve ever seen, smaller than what I have. I was so annoyed

smallest torx screws I’ve ever seen

Torx is legitimately useful for small screws, because it’s more resistant to stripping than Phillips.

Now, if they start using Torx security bits or some oddball shapes, then they’re just being obnoxious. But there are not-trying-to-obstruct-the-customer reasons not to use Phillips.

IFixit kit is a great toolset from the site that has every type of bit in it.

Got myself an IFixit Mako a while ago, really nice even if I mostly just use the philips head ones