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by SkyMarshal 4552 days ago
This looks awesome, kudos to Razer for attempting it.

One thing I wonder is, the perpetual problem for diy system builders is that eventually socket/connection technology is obsoleted and you have to upgrade your motherboard in order to upgrade the CPU, GPU, HDD, etc.

This essentially looks like a more accessible motherboard, but still subject to that problem where eventually you'll have to replace the core product in order to keep updating the peripherals.

In fact, I doubt a stable socket/connection technology will ever be arrived at, so it seems the only solution is to make those (and the motherboard) as interchangeable as all the other components, essentially an equal piece of the puzzle rather than the core of it all.

I wonder if it's even possible to engineer a computer where both the motherboard and the sockets/slots are abstracted away into components that are just as easily replaced/upgraded as the GPU, CPU, Disc player, HDDs, etc.