Should the sale of second-hand electrical items be banned?

You’re posting this like you’re an expert in

Accidentally posted before I finished writing. But I’m glad you still got my point.

Of course you need to be an expert before making absolute statements like “there’s no excuse. None. 0”. Because it’s a nonsense statement, and anyone who remotely know what they were talking about would never make it. The fact that you state that the RAM is “soldered to the logic board” is solid evidence of the laughable lack of knowledge you actually have.

The RAM in the modern Apple chips is not soldered to the logic board. It’s integrated into the CPU itself. If you don’t know the difference between that and being “soldered onto the logic board”, then you should probably go back to the basics, regardless of your teenage experience with “electronics” (whatever that’s supposed to mean exactly).

It’s done that way for the massive power and thermal savings the approach affords, which results in higher performance consuming lower power in a significantly smaller size. These are the very clear and obvious reasons for doing it. There is absolutely no way to have the RAM as a modular element in a SoC (System on a Chip) architecture. It would be like having your hippocampus as a separate organ to your brain.

For better or worse, once Apple decided to go down the route of SoC design (for the significant performance to power ratio it enjoys), then that decision was made for them. Yes, they could utilise an architecture that uses modular components - as they did in the past, and as other manufacturers do still. But they wouldn’t be SoC, and their computers would be bigger, more power hungry and more reliant on fans or active cooling than they are now.

The SoC design is not about saving money or making manufacturing easier (it’s more costly and more difficult to make). It’s simply a very specific and deliberate approach to performance.

My 1st thought on reducing ewaste is to remove the rule saying that someone can't pick something out of the ewaste skips outside of power city etc. Loads of stuff in there that is ripe for reuse as is or easy repair by people like myself with a little bit of knowledge.

Same as in the council recycling depots fridges dishwashers etc are full of unbroken drawers, shelves, clips, wheels etc that could save people loads of money on buying spares or scrapping there own. But no scavenging allowed is the rule.