How can you say that when a laptop (let’s agree to focus on the FW laptops for now) has so many other components beyond the SoC/mainboard?
Even ignoring the fact that the FW 13 and FW 16 have socketed/upgradable RAM, you’ve got the chassis, the screen, the wireless card, storage, the keyboard, and more.
If you had bought the FW 13 upon release (in 2021, I think), you have already had several opportunities to upgrade the guts of the computer while keeping everything else the same. If my CPU is no longer suitable for my needs, then why should I have to also replace my display? If it were a desktop computer, that’d obviously be preposterous. And FW has made products that make it preposterous for laptops too.
On the whole, I think you may be confusing the goals of repairability and upgradability with the notion of modularity. They’re not wholly unrelated of course, but they are different, and I think it’s clear that FW accomplishes those goals.
Even ignoring the fact that the FW 13 and FW 16 have socketed/upgradable RAM, you’ve got the chassis, the screen, the wireless card, storage, the keyboard, and more.
If you had bought the FW 13 upon release (in 2021, I think), you have already had several opportunities to upgrade the guts of the computer while keeping everything else the same. If my CPU is no longer suitable for my needs, then why should I have to also replace my display? If it were a desktop computer, that’d obviously be preposterous. And FW has made products that make it preposterous for laptops too.
On the whole, I think you may be confusing the goals of repairability and upgradability with the notion of modularity. They’re not wholly unrelated of course, but they are different, and I think it’s clear that FW accomplishes those goals.
Signed, Someone who wishes they had a FW