Bill in Co wrote:

A couple of questions. Why did you convert your Win 7 laptop to Win 10?
Did you actually need the updated capabilities or software (of Win 10)?

So it looks like your SSD is easily replaceable, and I wonder if that is
true for ANY of the new laptops out there, or if they are typically just
soldered in? Hmmm. Reading between the lines here, I'm assuming the only
time they are soldered in then is for the thin svelte laptops, and that the
thicker laptops actually have a drive bay for a 2.5 SSD (or HDD). Does that
sound about right?

The conversion isn't permanent. I have a Win7 drive and a
Win10 drive. The Win10 drive is sitting in it currently.

The drive bay concept "fits my lifestyle". You won't catch
me using a device with eMMC on it, as how would I swap stuff
and have fun ???

*******

You can get sockets for BGA chips, but sometimes those
solutions (used for lab prototypes) are taller than
an SSD would be, so nobody would do that.

If they wanted to, the industry could have come up with
a better solution. Soldering them down is just planned
obsolescence.

Paul