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Tengentially: Since a lot of us are hybrid workers now, can't we have a better solution than having to constantly schlep our laptops to work and back? I want an easily pluggable SSD that doesn't dangle precariously out of the side of my laptop. Something like the old PCMCIA form factor. Then I could have a work laptop and a home laptop.

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Given how powerful phones are nowadays it's a shame that we can't just dock our phones into a keyboard & monitor and run a full desktop OS on them.

or have a keyboard case for them like with the pinephone. Bonus points for enumerating usb-2/usb-4 and a headphone jack

At that point, why not have a home desktop and a work desktop? You've been able to have external hot-swap SSDs in a relatively small form factor for years. They make m.2 hot swappable frames[0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/j4ilsa/m2_ssd_in_a...

I would not be able to move a desktop between offices easily, and also it would not be comfortable on my lap.

You mean like the Framework laptop modules?

I don't know, maybe! I just did a half-arsed google and got an M.2 adaptor that doesn't look like it's designed for daily swappage? But maybe you're talking about something else.

They have "expansion cards" which fit flush in the body of the laptop. One of the available expansion cards is an SSD (comes in various sizes)

https://frame.work/products/storage-expansion-card-2nd-gen?v...

Thank you, that does look interesting! I haven't really considered the Frameworks so far because of my secondhand Thinkpad habit, but I do like the idea so I should probably think more seriously about it.

I bet if you're handy it should be possible to repurpose an optical slot in an old Thinkpad for those.

maybe consider a uhs-ii or uhs-iii sd card? they're very fast and will work on any modern macbook

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