The Future of Laptop Upgrade Ability?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 22, 2006 @01:55PM from the but-it-didn't-happen-with-PCMCIA dept.

oki900 asks: "With laptops becoming more modular, and the use of mini PCI or PCI express cards for most of the components, are we going to start to see more third party upgrade options for laptops. I know that currently a lot of laptops use mini PCI or PCI express for LAN/WLAN cards and some even for the sound cards. It's also becoming more popular to use mini PCI express for the video cards. What will this mean for laptop consumers in the near future and how far will this trend go? Are we going to soon be able to easily upgrade the processors in the laptops as well?"

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Re:modularize the failure components by samkass · 2006-05-22 14:09 · Score: 5, Informative

power adaptor connector failure. I don't know why these are made the way they are, but there's got to be a better way.

There is. These connectors are truly great. Not only does it protect the socket from bending, MacBook from being yanked onto the floor, and people from tripping, but because it can be attached either way and pulls itself into the socket magnetically, it can be connected easily in pitch darkness and is impossible to connect incorrectly.

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