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[–] Gingernate@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Gingernate@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Ok gotcha that's badass.

[–] WallEx@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

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