[SteveEisenberg]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

What might hurt is repairability.

I think repairability is also hurt by eReader reviewers routinely ignoring it -- despite there being big repairability differences between devices.

Originally Posted by holymadness

Note sure if this is linkbait or true, but FWIW: Intel 'preparing' to put an end to user-replaceable CPUs.

Sounds right. I had read before that something was happening that would reduce the number of companies making motherboards.

Hopefully the report that socketed CPU's return with Skylake (2015) is also true. As for the report that after Skylake, we got back to unrepairable motherboards forever, I think that's really looking too far into the future.

A lot of people, including me, like desktops better than laptops. It's easy to keep a spare keyboard in the house. No fear of dropping it. Slightly bigger monitor. I don't like a non-replaceable CPU, but desktops with soldered-in CPU chips are easy to imagine, and will still be more repairable than laptops, tablets, or even my Kindle Keyboard.

I can also imagine Intel still making socketed processors geared to the hobbyist market. They might not want to completely abandon us to AMD (assuming AMD survives and keeps with sockets).