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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ok gotcha that's badass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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