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		fogj094j0923j4 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling R... It is about space, laptops don't really have the same luxury as PC. Currently the trendy ultra small PC cases are going in the same direction with tightly coupled components, not in the connector spec, but dimensional fits.

tkfoss 36 days ago [–]

> It is about space, laptops don't really have the same luxury as PC.

Whats the difference, really? If your laptop CPU and RAM are socketed you can replace/upgrade. If mobos and peripherals were standardized you'd see macs with thinkpad keyboards, and thinkpads with mac internals.

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