True, but the prices you list are the price of the board + the CPU. On this main board ($340): https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case-and-ma

True, but the prices you list are the price of the board + the CPU. On this main board ($340): https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case-and-mainboard-kit?v=FRANHDCM01 https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case-and... The CPU is worth $250 already. You pay a $100 to get a swapable CPU on a laptop which is guaranteed to be compatible. You might value or not this feature, and that's fair. But I do value it a lot. Even on a tower, matching a board and a CPU is not a given. On a laptop, forget about it.