Why is building and customizing desktops so common compared with

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Someone would have to create a system of form factors that would allow modular parts to be installed like there is for desktop cases.


If a company makes a universal case,
they would then have to count on graphics card, motherboard, and all sorts of hardware manufacturers to make all new parts in the new FF.

You're also asking a company to release a laptop people can fix themselves, instead of getting a new one. If the form factor is universal then customers don't have to get their brand of part to fix it.

Custom desktops have a strong legacy dating back to the first personal computers in people's houses. Laptops came around much later, and were made to be small meaning specialised parts. "Gaming laptops" are even newer than that. They haven't been around for long at all.

>>58702223
Because laptops fit lots of components into a tiny enclosed space.

You're an idiot and this belongs in /sqt/

>>58702395
All you're doing rephrasing OP's question as "Why don't manufacturers make interchangeable small components that can fit in an enclosed space like a laptop?" instead of trying to answer it.

>>58702393

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>>58702393
People can just 3d print their own cases now. Then you don't even need to be this wannabe genius>>58702395 and fit parts into a space, you build the space around the parts the way you want.
Desktops only caught on because of personal computer sales to peoples homes most people built them their self.
Is it really just as simple that the lack of demand for parts sales that is holding this back? I get there are a lot of compromises for space/heat/energy in a laptop but a lot of these components already exist and can probably be adapted.


>>58702426
>implying he could answer it
Laptops are practically becoming obsolete anyway cheap disposable 30 dollar cell phones have processors on par with consumer laptops from 10 years ago and larger microSD ram storage than the smaller SDram laptops used . Cell phones are kind of... you can't even switch out a sim card so those are all pretty much just rental devices belonging to the phone companies. I don't really see why being able to build laptops would be an issue when they already have smart phones to keep selling.