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I doubt that's ever going to happen -- people build their own PCs exactly because they want the opposite of everything in a MacBook: they want modularity, upgradeability and repairability to the point that they are willing to sacrifice power efficiency.

"AI will need to run..."

Let's wait and see what actually happens to AI before being too eager to change the design of computers. I'm also pretty sure there will be a better solution than what you described.

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> people build their own PCs exactly because they want the opposite of everything in a MacBook: they want modularity, upgradeability and repairability to the point that they are willing to sacrifice power efficiency.

While I’m totally one of those people, aren’t we some rather small minority, nowadays? I mean, obviously still big enough for companies to produce parts we want, but I always keep reading how more and more people are using laptops instead of desktops.

These aren't laptop parts though. Maybe they'll do integrated memory for laptops, since many solder that on anyway nowadays.

But, for the desktop parts I don't see that being worthwhile unless it's used as something like with the 'X3D' chips, a large cache layer to the expandable memory.

I feel like this is nicely indicated by how AMD's desktop APUs get a lot less interest, they were fine without it for several generations, and even now it's just an afterthought.

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