The fact that they weren't using MXM in the past, even just offering the OPTION, was a huge source of complaints against their design. Yes it adds complexity, but MXM has been a standard upgrade option in various workstation and gaming laptops since 2006. When Framework ignored it entirely from the start it was incredibly confusing. Also no the size of the machine does not inherently limit their ability to use MXM cards, there's both MXM-A and MXM-B size modules, and MXM-A is small enough to fit into a 14" chassis. Dell/Alienware has done it over the years, ACER did it over a decade ago on some Aspire and TravelMate machines, HP has done it on smaller EliteBook and ProBook models.
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The fact that they weren't using MXM in the past, even just offering the OPTION, was a huge source of complaints against their design. Yes it adds complexity, but MXM has been a standard upgrade option in various workstation and gaming laptops since 2006. When Framework ignored it entirely from the start it was incredibly confusing. Also no the size of the machine does not inherently limit their ability to use MXM cards, there's both MXM-A and MXM-B size modules, and MXM-A is small enough to fit into a 14" chassis. Dell/Alienware has done it over the years, ACER did it over a decade ago on some Aspire and TravelMate machines, HP has done it on smaller EliteBook and ProBook models.