Microsoft actually owns another whole patent on a magnetically actuated locking connector, which is a plausible explanation for how their connector works, and Razer sounds like it doesn't even magnetically couple at all.

Well, for starters, magsafe is patented (making any 'official' copy hard to pull off) but 3rd party Chinese foils of magsafe are out there and I actually agree with the point that the SSD cart is kind of pointless.

*And making a homebrew standard doesn't really fly, especially for a startup like Framework. Thunderbolt already shares the same connector type as USB-C, and exposes traditionally internal PCIe lanes to the outside. Only scenario where Framework can actually make their own standard is if they genuinely reinvent a solution that had previously failed before like their just announced GPU connector that probably just made MXM look completely geriatric and obsolete overnight.

Taper is there to help the speakers project themselves. MBA has speakers projecting through the hinge, and the speaker cavity is much smaller.

User replaceable stuff doesn't help at all with user upgradability. You can't do wacky stuff like add in storage or DP on a cartridge without fundamentally altering the chassis holes. Or even fabricate your own modules like magsafe.

Valve made a PC, not a console. Once its in your hands, you can do whatever you want hardware or software wise. Very big distinction to make.

And yeah, I had to make a correction +2d after your comment it was that off

I wouldn't call it HBM as a concept an abject failure, as the tech has found a niche in Nvidia and AMD's top dog price-is-no-object accelerators.

Problem was that AMD tried to sell cards with the tech to consumers, which don't really benefit from the high bandwidth part of the tech, so all it really did at the end of the day was bump up the cost and limit VRAM amounts.

Also, tbd on new info from RDNA3, as its supposed to include MCM.