Each connector, slot, screw is a cost and failure addition. Give me all the components soldered on the motherboard with a reasonable price. By the time you want to upgrade all the component are obsolete anyway.
But to each their own, competition and choice is a good thing.
This may be true, but how much will the failure rate increase by? Isn't it worth the added flexibility?
> Each connector, slot, screw is a cost and failure addition.
One distinctive feature of the framework laptop is is minimal use of screws, to make it easier for maintenance (and tinkering I suppose).
I upgraded the RAM and disk in its prime as well, why it lasted so long.
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That's actually undesirable for any connectors. Having connectors on separate PCBs is standard practice and lets them flex a little.
Framework improves on that one more step because the adapters are on "rails", further minimizing the movement transferred to the actual USB-C port behind them.