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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by ribit on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:15AM (#27931608)
If I am not mistaken the ports on recent Apple machines are on a separate, easily replaceable board.
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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by mikepurvis on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:34PM (#27933409)
Seems like this stuff maybe comes and goes— like here's a repair guide for a 2010-vintage MBP which definitely shows all the connectors being right on the logic board:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Logic+Board...

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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by sgerenser on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:41AM (#27931947)
Doesn’t appear to be the case on the 16” MBP: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+16-Inch+2019+Tea...
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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by davweb on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:40PM (#27932698)
Looking at this photo from that page it appears that they are: https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/uavG2A3vFrVmwv6J.hug...

You can see the ports still in place after the motherboard has been removed.

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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by sgerenser on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:48PM (#27936505)
Interesting, didn’t notice that. It looked like the logic board went all the way to the edges.
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