Soldered-in RAM, a proprietary SSD, soldered-on charging and USB ports, and a glued-down battery means that if any one of those things go bad, the entire computer must be trashed.
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The O-rings on the zipper pulls must be soldered closed.
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They soldered upgrades onto the machine, learning every part of it.
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Once the busbars are added, the individual cells are then soldered together.
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With all the switches soldered on, it's time to assemble the case.
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If you've ever soldered or welded, you'll know that things get pretty hot.
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After you've gotten everything soldered together, you've technically got a working DIY charger.
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Every bit of silver on the board was hand soldered there by Jacob.
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Normally these would come as separate components, each manually wired and soldered together.
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It's still better than the 2014 Mac mini, which had the RAM soldered in.
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Engineers soldered broken parts back together, sending small plumes of smoke into the air.
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This isn't the first time Apple has soldered an SSD directly into its products, however.
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That's why it's interesting that the more expensive Touch Bar versions have soldered-on chips.
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Corrosive water can cause the lead in older pipes and soldered joints to leach out.
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Joseph Heller had a Smith-Corona with keys that flew off (they were soldered back on).
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To date, they've upgraded 913 iPhone models with main logic boards soldered using only recycled tin.
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The zinc casting process consisted of casting the figure in parts, which were then soldered together.
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Image: MacRumors user fs454Image: MacRumors users fs454 You can see that the NAND controller is soldered inside.
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Not only is it prohibitively difficult to open the case all of the parts are soldered down.
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However, the same is not true of the AirPods Pro, whose battery is tethered by a soldered cable.
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Click here to view original GIFEveryone knows the PCBs in their electronics aren't soldered together by hand anymore.
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Today the Counterpointer stands alone, a sleek wooden box to which Pereira has hand-soldered the synthesizer chip.
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The sculpture, once released from the mold, can be soldered, polished and patinated into its gleaming final form.
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The hack involved a modified Amazon Echo, which had parts swapped out, including some that had been soldered on.
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That being said, older items tended to be permanently soldered, which you don't see so much in modern products.
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They hand-soldered the circuit board, 3D-printed the case, and loaded up Comma's Open Pilot self-driving software.
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A cabana bar area built from rusted, soldered metal panels sits at one end of the heated infinity pool.
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That means it doesn't need to be soldered onto the board and can be swapped or rotated at whim.
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So they designed, 3-D-printed and soldered solar-powered lights they could mail to them across the world.
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PCB is the circuit board the the switches are soldered into—in essence, it is the heart of a keyboard.
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Every circuit board is hand populated and every component has to be hand soldered by someone in the Moog Factory.
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Microsoft has soldered the RAM, CPU, and GPU to the motherboard, so the configuration cannot be changed down the line.
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Every day I wake up I feel like someone has filled my skin with boulders and soldered my eyelids shut.
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In the same way that score and soundtrack are soldered into one, different forms of sound are mixed in crazy ways.
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In the scuffle that follows, the cop is killed, and the couple, their fates suddenly soldered together, go on the run.
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This six-foot-high cabinet is fashioned from hand-soldered planes of silver-plated brass remarkably made to resemble a mirror.
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He bent and soldered small metal tubes into a stick figure, an "iron man," with a hexagonal nut for a head.
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She's documented her builds from start to finish, soldered in front of an audience, and offered herself up to interrogation as proof.
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Wrap the exposed soldered spot with electrical tape or slide on some heat shrink to keep these spots from touching each other.
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To keep his Kinect churning, Davis opened it up, soldered the 12V wire onto the device's board, and sealed it back up.
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They looked chimerical, cut-and-pasted on the spot: Half of a man's suit jacket soldered to a cocktail top, for example.
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It has to be soldered to be put on top of the dome of Florence's cathedral, the Duomo, that little copper ball.
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After some creative cutting of a Game Boy Link Cable that he then soldered to the Arduino, Ekeler had his pipeline all set.
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I knew the RAM was soldered to the logic board on this particular model, leaving a SSD replacement as the only true option.
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Older USB-C MacBook Pro models had the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports soldered onto the logic board, making repairs costly and inefficient.
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I had soldered circuit boards at a past job, but SageGlass does it a little differently so I had to learn their process.
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If you have a PC laptop, you can probably upgrade the RAM, but check online to make sure it's not soldered down first.
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The man had already been tortured so viciously with an iron, he said, that his T-shirt had been soldered into his skin.
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The crystal is surrounded by gold squares that seem random but would have been painstakingly soldered, one by one, in his London workshop.
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Other sources include: • Soil contaminated with lead or food grown in it • Lead water pipes or those soldered with lead, which can leach into the water supply • Some canned goods, if the cans are soldered with lead • Paint on some imported toys • Some jewelry Low levels of lead exposure usually have no obvious or immediate symptoms, which means it can go undetected.
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Spawn Wave soldered in a new wire running along the inside of the controller, which he claims in the video did improve the connection.
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Unlike the processor and RAM, which are soldered onto the Macbook's logic board, the solid state drive is accessible through a bunch of screws.
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If you have a MacBook with soldered-in RAM (anything post-Retina or any MacBook Air), join me in ceaselessly whining about this decision.
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These wearable awards exemplify a tradition of ornamental metalworking, often made from sheets of nickel or silver, soldered with gold lettering and engraved details.
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The new MacBook Pro, like its earlier Retina designs, has a glued down battery and has RAM that is soldered into the computer's logic board.
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This means my initials are soldered on the cutter's hull, and according to maritime lore, my spirit is linked inextricably to that of the vessel.
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That's the hard plastic that companies love to torture us with by encasing a product between two sheets of PVC and soldered around the edges.
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When she took that one in to be soldered to her wedding band, it came back with another diamond missing and the center diamond crooked.
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He concluded that removing the batteries was impossible without destroying the gadget, which is a contraption of tiny circuit boards and ribbon cables soldered together.
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Traditionally, jewelry is cast in a rubber mold, reducing it to a two-part composition of front and back that then can be soldered together.
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People cracked open machines, soldered into circuit boards, and in general broke through the systems that are designed to ensure the legitimacy of our vote.
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After writing his code to that chip, Elkins desoldered it from the Digispark board and soldered it to the motherboard of a Cisco ASA 5505 firewall.
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The piece, "Fair and Square," suspends a pair of swings in mid-air on soldered chains, balanced in defiance of gravity and appearing frozen in time.
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Dial in the exact melting temperature you need and the X-Tronic will keep the pen locked within 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit—until every last point is soldered.
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People are typically exposed to lead by breathing in lead-contaminated dust, drinking water from leaded pipes, or eating from cans that have been soldered with lead.
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Turn your children into makers at this Brooklyn festival celebrating all things woven, hammered, chiseled, soldered, hand sewn, hand shaped, hand dyed, hand carved and hand printed.
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It was like one wire had been soldered the wrong way or something like that, or maybe in shipping, it had been flexed in the wrong way.
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As both the RAM and SSD (the two components typically upgraded after purchase) are soldered to the logic board, this would further complicate already difficult post-purchase upgrades.
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It's a 200mWh unit, soldered in place on the Pros, and from my review experience with both pairs of buds, I can vouch for its comparatively long endurance.
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Pedroso says that once the boards are soldered together to create a 3D structure, users can control every LED's brightness with the Arduino and a three-port device.
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But for the past four years, owners of Apple's popular iMac line of computers haven't been able to do just that because Apple has used soldered-in RAM.
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Its titanium collections — shaped by skilled goldsmiths, structurally perfected as 3-D designs and soldered together by laser as the material requires — encapsulate the beauty of Italian jewelry.
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One note about the RAM: you can add more if you'd like, unlike the m99.993 R2 model released in May 2019 that has RAM soldered to the board.
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Like Microsoft's Surfaces or Apple's MacBooks, the Blade is a closed machine — even the RAM is soldered down, and you'll void your warranty just by cracking open the case.
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But if the most important and expensive part of the desktop computer you're looking to buy is the GPU, it's insane to choose one that's soldered to the motherboard.
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Case in point: intrepid MacRumors forum member fs454 opened up his new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and found that the SSD chips are now soldered inside.
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Many of Mr. Gouthière's works have recently undergone scientific testing to determine which ingredients were incorporated into their alloys and how their delicate segments were soldered and pinned together.
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The piano keys each Furby is soldered to can squeeze a formant vowel note from each creatures beak, turning the chaotic crowd of chatterboxes into a rigid, obedient choir.
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Since the $6 display cable is soldered onto the laptop's screen, if it fails you have to replace the entire screen at a cost of around $700, according to iFixit.
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With the processor, RAM and flash memory soldered onto the logic board, and the battery glued to the case, there's very few things a user can replace on her own.
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A year on, Nardil had provided relief from the worst of the depression, but it had also soldered the writer's block down at the edges, sealing off important neural pathways.
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Each of the two sculptures consists of three or five rectangular frames of powder-coated black steel, positioned at various angles, soldered together at bottom and rising to staggered heights.
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He's nearly rebuilt Haunted House from scratch, but one of the targets still isn't adding points, which Hooker thinks is because a soldered wire has come loose underneath the machine.
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Brass standoffs, hand-soldered connectors, and beautifully laid out, repairable boards made this hardware the the Colonial Furniture of the computer world: carefully wrought with an eye toward efficiency and beauty.
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While some of the concepts, like soldered integrated circuits and processor sockets, mostly work the same generation after generation, the technology simply moves too fast to allow for hand-me-downs.
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The completed work will incorporate panes of glass in over 270 colors, framed in soldered zinc, which Cain has painstakingly arranged so that no two adjoining fragments are the same shade.
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However, once you've taken the cover off, you won't be able to spec up the Surface Laptop 3 to your heart's content, as the CPU and RAM are soldered to the motherboard.
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I bent brass wire and soldered the pieces together to get the shape I wanted, then heated up plastic for the lenses in a vacuum-forming machine to fit into the frames.
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When you think of circuit boards, you traditionally think of those firm green slabs, made up of etched copper laminated to a piece of glass with various chips and components soldered on.
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To make extra money, he set up a workbench in a corner of the house, where every evening after dinner, he soldered watch casings, a filtered Kent cigarette dangling from his mouth.
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According to Leung's Google Plus page, the "SurjTech 3M USB 3.1 Type C to Standard Type A" cord was unbelievably poorly made, with some necessary wires soldered incorrectly, and other wires missing.
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Made to last, the jump ring on the dog tag is soldered closed so you won't have to worry about it falling off your pup (even if they like to play rough).
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Feet and ears were cast separately and soldered on; other parts and touches, like the head of a horse or the bow on a cat, were stamped in two halves and joined seamlessly.
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The 803-inch model has a lot of stuff soldered on, while the 15-inch variant allows you to remove components such as the RAM, the SSD, and (most importantly) the WiFi card.
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It's not a convertible like the Spectre and has soldered-on RAM, but the processor is the same, it's a more svelte 13 inches, and it has an upgradeable WiFi card and SSD.
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When Gigi slid into the dress (gold leather, dripping with a fringe of chains, featuring a giant bubble butt that would make Nicki Minaj raise an eyebrow), it had to be soldered shut.
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Those brown lids are soldered so tightly to the plastic jars that they're highly resistant to brute strength, as well as tried-and-true methods such as loosening a jar in hot water.
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" He soldered together a grid of 44 Furbies rescued from charity shops or donated to his cause to create a Furby hivemind that's "kind of like The Matrix, but without the bad sunglasses.
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Manufacturers pivoted to hardware that had to be soldered directly onto a system's electronic guts, limiting their audiences to tech-savvy consumers who felt comfortable opening their consoles and working with dangerous tools.
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I see how his bracelet of rectangular gold plates, soldered in a syncopating rhythm and punctured by oblong pools of blue stone, reflect in the hand-painted fountains on his colorful landscape plans.
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Recent trends encourage us to see this as a weakness; "hero ball" is out of vogue, overtaken in the public imagination by a in which star power is soldered seamlessly to a team approach.
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"We're going from the vacuum tubes and hand-soldered wires of the '60s to LEDs, ethernet cables, and advanced electronics," Clive Townsend, an engineer and supervisor of Purdue's reactor, said in a press release.
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"I think the statistics are something like 4 billion cell phones in the world, and really, all of them are soldered with lead-free solder," Anderson explained in a recent Ames Laboratory promotional clip.
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In Pennsylvania, where Republicans have traditionally soldered together a coalition of rural whites who are more culturally conservative and upscale suburbanites mainly concerned with taxes, an abortion-rights battle could further dismantle that fraying alliance.
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What could that something, that inciting incident, that breaker of a 12-year bond and a two-year marriage between Hollywood's two hottest people and biggest stars, soldered into a single, synergistically superheated supernova — BRANGELINA — be?
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However, HP notes that the G7's RAM is soldered directly to the board and therefore not upgradable, and the base model of the G7 offers just 16GB of storage compared to the x360 G2's 32GB.
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Billions of transistors, attached to green plastic, soldered by robots into a microscopic Kowloon Walled City of absolute technology that we call a phone, even though it is to the rotary phone as humans are to amoebas.
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From the handlebars to the kicker pedals, they are soldered, sculpted and painted in the Brooklyn shop, including the iconic Indian Larry down tube, for which two muscular humans strain to twist steel heated to 900 degrees.
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After adding a modem that could send and receive data across a phone line, Mr. Suess soldered together some additional hardware that could automatically restart the machine and then load Mr. Christiansen's software whenever someone dialed in.
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Both components are parts Apple says only it distributes, while solid state drives on most modern Macs, like the new Mac mini, are not user replaceable because they are soldered either to other components or the housing unit.
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The bluetooth signal sends the music to an audio receiver on the wig, which transmits them to two tiny amplifiers that then send the music to each of the 250 earbuds which are soldered and glued in place.
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I've swapped out numerous keycaps, de-soldered and replaced the switches on a Das Keyboard 4, modified an Apple Extended Keyboard II to work over USB, and I've even installed a customizable microcontroller in a Filco Majestouch 2.
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What's most intriguing about the process is how he used a soldering iron, heated to around 300 Celsius, to melt and reconnect the soldered wires attached to the Game Boy's screen to fix all of its dead screen lines.
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If you're not into the idea of replacing the keyboard's switches, then Logitech is also selling a non-X Pro model of the keyboard for $129.99 where the switches are soldered to its circuit board — it's only available with clicky switches.
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The Luton-based company said it decided to recall the cars to replace the current soldered fuse resistor with a wax fuse resistor, further to an announcement in December, when the carmaker identified an overheating issue that could possibly cause fire.
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Worse, the mind-body dualism, soldered into Western consciousness by the Greeks, fomented a kind of civil war of the mind — stripping rationality of its spiritual underpinnings and spirituality of its reason, and casting each into false conflict with the other.
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As its name — the Tack — suggests, the piece is tack-welded (soldered with small beads instead of thick strips), a technique that lends it a surprising delicacy, while also conjuring an aging freighter gliding gracefully, even despite its heft, across roiling seas.
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Whether viewing a David Bielander silver bracelet soldered in 215 to echo the look of factory-made corrugated cardboard or an outsize 212s bodice ornament of diamond flowers set en tremblant, the gallery collection has delighted visitors of all backgrounds and ages.
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Before Nielsen's remarks, Border Patrol agents soldered a plaque to part of the two-mile stretch of replacement wall that included the names of Trump and Nielsen, along with those of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan and other border officials.
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Saturday, February 6, 2016, will forever be known as the day that Marco Rubio looked like a malfunctioning robot, utterly incapable of engaging in normal human conversation and desperately searching his ROM for the hard-coded talking points his operators had soldered in.
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Now, this was a great studio because it's doing not only art and sculpture, but pageants and plays, and it's taking the copper ball, that has to be engineered and soldered using mirrors that concentrate the rays of light of the sun.
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Essentially the eSIM is a SIM card that is permanently soldered to the device's board, removing the need for the plastic card that holds the chip, the locking mechanism that keeps it in place and the little tray that lets you swap it out.
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As much as my dad and I create chaos, we create order, and if I look carefully I can find it in each newly soldered array of copper pipes or in the way my dad's toolboxes all fit together in the back of his van.
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A quilt is typically layers of fabric with batting in between, but bojagi can be a single, translucent sheet, finished on both sides; hold it up to the light and the seams echo the lines created when panels of stained glass are soldered together.
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After discovering the screws hidden by the device's feet, he pulled casing apart to reveal a device that isn't all that modular: the HDMI and Micro USB ports are soldered right to the board, along with the system's processor and flash memory, which stores 30 preprogrammed games.
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The iMac Pro, as carefully engineered as its predecessors, doesn't make upgrades easy, but its processor, an Intel Xeon W-2140B, is not soldered onto the motherboard and appears to use a fairly standard 2066 socket, which means you could, theoretically, replace the CPU with any processor that uses a 2066 socket.
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Those hoping to crack apart the NES Classic and take advantage to its open software to add more games are out of luck, as the flash memory is soldered to the motherboard — so if you're looking to play more than Nintendo's chosen 30 games, a more traditional emulator may be a better option.
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While practically every other part of the system is easily upgradable with off-the-shelf parts, the NUC Element modules themselves are proprietary and their CPUs are soldered down, meaning you'd need to rely on Intel to keep making them for the foreseeable future, and Intel isn't promising to do that for sure.
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Motherhood has forced me to exist in the real, where we care too much and feel too much, where the house is always a mess, where we are suspicious of falsity because we simply lack the time for it, where we have all been decimated and remade so many times that not all the cracks can be soldered.
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Foundrae's first store, at 52 Lispenard Street in downtown Manhattan, takes a similarly eclectic approach: An antique roll-top jeweler's bench (where shoppers can see items get soldered) and a suite of 1970s-era rounded leather armchairs by Giancarlo Piretti for Castelli sit alongside contemporary pieces such as a moody, eight-by-ten-foot landscape painted by Tyler Hays of the furniture company BDDW.
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Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has even weighed in on the computer, saying it's one of only a handful of boards that were manually soldered together — none of which were ever sold to the public (the original owner was likely an early employee of the company.) The board may have even been built by Jobs himself, according to an Apple expert interviewed by Recode who noted Jobs put together many of the early boards.
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