Yep.

China lurks patent and places like kickstarter for things to make and sell.

That’s besides taking the machinery for contracted work and running the machines with a second shift and cheaper parts…

I hate it.

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Yeah but imagine if we had a laptop motherboard standard like desktops.

Instead of ATX it would be something like MLF - Modular Laptop Framework

Where there would be some board standard for laptop boards.

Then you get screen ribbon standards, keyboard ribbon standards, etc.

This would allow one to order a laptop case with screen, keyboard and touchpad. But you can pick your board, cpu, ram.

I know some companies have done GPU upgrades but how nice would it be to upgrade your 4 year old $3k laptop’s GPU?

Agreed but in most larger businesses swap out the laptops around 3-5 years.

Consumers use laptop 5-10+ until they die.

Bullshit. My aunt has a washing machine with all knobs and switches that’s probably 30+ years old and it still works fine.

They need to stop putting all these digital components into washing machines or make the boards standardized so they can be easily swapped out. These aren’t laptops that you toss after 3-5 years. Appliances should last 10-20 years.

Wait… Could you put bigscreen on the desktop mode, configure it with all the fixings, plug in a dock to TV and get a USB/bluetooth remote?

… Shit that’s better than a mini ATX HTPC at $600 dollar for dollar since you can run away with it

And I LOVE that USB-C is uni-directional.

I tend to buy 90° connectors for all the things and it’s such a treat that USB-C is well designed.

I remember those days, but this was before Microtransactions and battlepasses.

Back then when you bought a game it was complete and you owned it…