Comment on MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

• papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok gotcha that’s badass.

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• WallEx@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes

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• ADTJ@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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