The Intel NUC 8 Bean Canyon uses socketed SO-DIMMs, not soldered RAM

Intel’s NUC 8 Bean Canyon keeps things upgrade-friendly with two standard DDR4 SO-DIMM slots — refreshingly socketed at a time when soldered RAM was becoming the norm in compact PCs. You can pop in whatever capacity you need without a soldering iron. Little machines like this are exactly where user-accessible RAM matters most.