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Conceptually the Framework laptop is getting moderately close to this.

Unfortunately we have signaling over USB C or Thunderbolt so good that everything is connected by wires instead of being integrated into a "standard case design" so whilst we can (somewhat) have the expandability, we don't have the resulting neatness.

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Somebody somewhere will probably see this and build the framework to build something similar out of Framework parts. That is, if it hasn't be done already.

It’s great. Almost 40 years of miniaturization, energy efficiency and price/performance improvements made it so you can achieve the Jonathan over wires that run outside of the case.

Modularity like this inside the case is cool and necessary for high bandwidth needs (gaming and hyperscalars) where you get good price/performance but they’re not business computers like The Jonathan.

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