alt Hacker News> Computers are never "future proof".
Upgradeable components however could go a loooong stretch towards that goal. It can't be that hard to follow a common form factor for at least the housing across two or three generations to allow a reuse of everything but the main PCB.
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_kush • yesterday at 2:02 PM
If it was upgradable, then yes, spending more on top of it every year would make it future proof, but that's not the point. It's that spending 10 grand doesn't get you a future proof computer today.
mhast • yesterday at 2:20 PM
The main PCB is pretty much everything that has value. The rest is a heatsink, case and PSU.
fearmerchant • yesterday at 2:04 PM
The way the Apple M-series does ram that might be difficult to pull off.
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Think it would have same memory bandwidth if the RAM was upgradeable?
Would be nice if someone knowledgeable about electrical engineering and manufacturing processes could lay out some valid reasons for manufacturers to integrate RAM onto the motherboard.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041256#49082206