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I think it’s more about repair ability than it is about upgrading. At some point you’re going to end up with hardware that needs a different motherboard and then you might as well just replace the whole thing. There really isn’t anything that can be done about that.

To be honest I kind of think framework go a bit far on the modularity of the device, it’s a nice to have but really I’d be perfectly fine with a laptop that just has a replaceable keyboard, screen and battery, as those pretty much exclusively tend to be the parts that go wrong. Hell you could strip it down even further and just have an easily replaceable battery and it would probably be fine for 90% of people.

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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Hell no, I love that I can just upgrade to a better Mainboard in a couple years

Why would I also ditch all the other components because of a CPU change?

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I mean I assume it’s because you wouldn’t in fact be able to get constant upgrade you’d end up being limited by socket design and things.
  
  There has already been at least one incompatible motherboard upgrade. Essentially a whole new line of framework laptops.
  
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  - SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yup, I’m not s huge fan of the FW12 because of the 3rd format they now have to maintain
    
    But the Mainboard of 12, 13 and 16 are all interchangeable inside their model line
    
    You’re not really limited by socket design, as you change out the whole motherboard
    
    The only limit is the physical size inside the case. And maybe thermals
    
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expr@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I mean, there’s no real reason laptops shouldn’t like any desktop computer with parts that can be swapped out. Maybe when laptops were first coming on the market with a difficult form factor to work with, but it’s been long enough that modularity should be easy and the default.

If you can swap out tiny little SIM cards in a phone, you should be able to slot in standardized, smaller form-factor components like RAM, SSDs, etc.

And by the way, people can and do swap out motherboards all the time for desktops. There is no good reason to need to buy all new components all the time.

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah but you can’t put a non ATX motherboard in an ATX case it physically doesn’t fit.
  
  Unlike desktops where you can get oversized cases laptops are all designed towards the board the really isn’t that much space in a framework laptop. Like I don’t you could go up a couple of inches and get a bigger screen for example because the whole frame wouldn’t fit it.
  
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BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

At some point you’re going to end up with hardware that needs a different motherboard and then you might as well just replace the whole thing. There really isn’t anything that can be done about that.

You can just buy a newer, better mainboard on their website. No need to change out the whole computer. I fucking love them for that.

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