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Re:The Framework Laptop Could Revolutionize Repairability. W... by 0xbadcafebee on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:21PM (#28869508)
Does anyone else miss PCMCIA? I do!

Some Dell laptops used to have these plastic cages around their hard drives, so you could take out a single screw and cold-swap drives in 10 seconds, no need to open the case. Same to pop in a sound card, ethernet card, USB card, SD card reader, etc. Still my favorite "hacker laptop". Lost it somewhere in Vegas during a bender at DEFCON. Thank goodness for hard drive encryption.

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Re:The Framework Laptop Could Revolutionize Repairability. W... by NathanielK on Thursday October 14, 2021 @06:51PM (#28871269)
If you're clever, you can usually hotswap that drive too, since it's just a dumb SATA port. More convenient to do with the CD-bay 2.5" drive caddies.
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