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Re:Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants by Ericson2314 on Monday September 05, 2016 @12:38PM (#12431137)
Um PCs are module because there is a history of competition going back to IBM using off-then-shelf parts. Basically everything from technology companies since is more anti-modular and anti-competative.
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Re:Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants by AstralStorm on Monday September 05, 2016 @08:24PM (#12432962)
Excluding markets where serviceability is at a premium. Server hardware is often highly modular, but then the modules are quite proprietary. IBM is doing that themselves nowadays.
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