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It's only a "mother"board if you can plug in daughterboards like graphics, sound or other expansion cards, typically oriented orthogonally to the mother board.
by WJW 4y ago
It's only a "mother"board if you can plug in daughterboards like graphics, sound or other expansion cards, typically oriented orthogonally to the mother board. That doesn't fit in a laptop form factor, so the term there is usually mainboard as many of the other functionalities have been consolidated onto that one PCB.
- ithkuil 4y agoIndeed peripherals like printers usually have "mainboards" and not motherboards. Some vendors traditionally use different names, like apple uses "logic board"
- hoorible 4y agoSlight nitpick: the full phrasing Apple uses is “main logic board”, so they’re actually (somewhat) in line with the conventional phrasing other vendors use.