Comment on MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you upgrade the motherboard, you can actually 3d print or buy a $60 case and use it as a desktop.

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  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s really cool. Also works very well with an external Gpu.

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  • Gingernate@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean can’t you just plug it into a monitor and then use it as a desktop?

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    • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup - as someone else pointed out I wasn’t clear in what I said. If you buy a new mobo to upgrade your laptop, you wind up with an older mobo that sits there. You can then actually use the old mobo as a desktop computer as long as it has ram and an SSD.

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      • Gingernate@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok gotcha that’s badass.

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    • WallEx@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes

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    • ADTJ@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, the point they’re making is that if you upgrade the laptop components, you can use the old components as another PC

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