Yes, a fun form-factor! The EOMA68 project tried to re-use it for a compute module [0], but sadly ran out of money before shipping.
For example, instead of sourcing a stock of the increasingly hard to get DDR memory chips, time and money was spent on designing a completely new 3d printer based on new mechanics for printing the laptop parts. No commercial printer was good enough and neither was any 3d printing service.
Due to the time spent on thimgs like this more and more parts went obsolete and manufacturing became harder.
Still waiting for my EOMA68-A20 card that runs Debian.