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No manufacturer wants this. They don't want to sell you updated internals, they want to sell you a new product. Not to mention no one wants to pay the Intel-tax
by kondro 10y ago
No manufacturer wants this. They don't want to sell you updated internals, they want to sell you a new product. Not to mention no one wants to pay the Intel-tax for their embedded processors.
I wish Intel would stop creating products nobody wants and actually work on shipping their core products on-time.
- sb8244 10y ago> I wish Intel would stop creating products nobody wants and actually work on shipping their core products on-time. If a company cuts X employees from Product B, those employees probably are not going to Product A to work (different skill sets, budgets, diversify product line, etc).
- ryukafalz 10y ago>No manufacturer wants this. >I wish Intel would stop creating products nobody wants Those are two very different things. I, as a consumer, want this, because I would very much like to upgrade the processor in my laptops without replacing the whole device, for environmental and cost reasons. (I backed the EOMA-68 project for the same reason.) If Intel can get a few manufacturers on board with the idea, more power to them.
- pmontra 10y agoThere are laptops with replaceable CPU, GPU, RAM, disks, etc. I own one, a HP ZBook 15 from 2014. However they're not common and I see how low end laptops could become docking stations for a compute card. They're going to have an internal USB hub to connect IO devices to the card USB C, disk, screen, touch, keyboard. I wonder how much that's going to degrade performances. There's going to be a limit to the upgrade options, depending on the cooling capabilities of the laptop.
- gm-conspiracy 10y agoI thought you were talking about the new Macbook Pro.
- technofiend 10y ago>No manufacturer wants this. They don't want to sell you updated internals, they want to sell you a new product. Not to mention no one wants to pay the Intel-tax for their embedded processors. You're right on both points, but as a discriminating consumer I will prefer dumb devices to smart ones and upgradeable smart devices to static ones simply because it's greener. Unless the fridge refuses to function it's much more likely to get its network connection disabled completely the first time there's an unpatched vulnerability rather than replaced in its entirety.