I think the soldered on Flash reduces cost a bit since that's one less connector piece that's required. Part of the reason that its been speculated that the ram can't be upgraded either is because of the cost savings to Asus in not having that connector piece for the stick of ram.
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JHosche @ Sep 26th 2007 12:58PM
I think the soldered on Flash reduces cost a bit since that's one less connector piece that's required. Part of the reason that its been speculated that the ram can't be upgraded either is because of the cost savings to Asus in not having that connector piece for the stick of ram.