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Then the board with CPU, GPU and RAM could be made replaceable.
by codedokode 4y ago
Then the board with CPU, GPU and RAM could be made replaceable.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago'Could' is the key word here. Of course they could just deaig and sell new motherboards with new chips for the older laptops chassis, like framework does, but knowing Apple, such user upgrades will not happen.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoBut aren't the CPU, GPU and RAM the most expensive components on a MB, by far? I wouldn't expect such a board to be significantly less expensive than a complete one.
- codedokode 4y agoI don't think so. I tried to look up the price of CPU in my laptop, but it is not sold separately (it is soldered on the motherboard). The desktop version of the same CPU, which has 50% higher score in Passmark benchmark, costs 25% of the price of laptop. RAM costs approximately 10% of the price. So RAM + CPU make only 35% of total price.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoSure, but a desktop computer with 50% higher scores than a laptop with "laptop version of cpu" will cost less than the laptop (even counting a monitor), so I'm not sure that comparison holds. For example, an HP Elitedesk 800 mini (very small, so using SO-DIMMs and integrated everything - basically a non-portable laptop) will run you around 800 Euros, while the "equivalent" Elitebook 830/840 will run you 1500 euros. Specs are "similar", same generation mid-level i5, same RAM, same SSD. Main difference is the Elitedesk will have desktop-class CPU. Throw in a cheap HP screen (200 euro - Elitebook laptops have ridiculously bad screens, so that's fair), and you get to 2/3 the price of the laptop.