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Keyboards and wifi are one thing (both already modular) but the CPU is integrated into the mainboard and an AMD-based board would presumably need different AMD
by zerocrates 5y ago
Keyboards and wifi are one thing (both already modular) but the CPU is integrated into the mainboard and an AMD-based board would presumably need different AMD chipsets and so on beyond simply the CPU itself. That's "modular" in the sense that the chassis is designed for swappable mainboards, but it's much more involved to support.
- emptysongglass 5y agoI remember socketed CPUs being a thing on some ThinkPad models.
- twblalock 5y agoI don't remember any laptop ever that could support both AMD and Intel CPUs. The chipsets are different.
- robin_reala 5y agoMid-90s had both laptops with CPU sockets, and pin-compatible drop-in AMD and Cyrix 486 and Pentium-equivalent chips.