MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

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MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis
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Buy Framework laptops, these have amazing repairability and upgradability, as well as good Linux compatibility. They even offer ChromeOS options, if you ever need a Chromebook.

If you upgrade the motherboard, you can actually 3d print or buy a $60 case and use the old motherboard as a desktop.

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Yeah it's really cool. Also works very well with an external Gpu.

I mean can't you just plug it into a monitor and then use it as a desktop?

Yup - as someone else pointed out I wasn't clear in what I said. If you buy a new mobo to upgrade your laptop, you wind up with an older mobo that sits there. You can then actually use the old mobo as a desktop computer as long as it has ram and an SSD. The form factor and IO were designed with this functionality in mind.

Yes, but open contacts aren't that nice ^^

Yes, the point they're making is that if you upgrade the laptop components, you can use the old components as another PC