It's not surprising if you understand that minipcs are basically all just using laptop parts.

Really, it'd be surprising if they didn't go into that corner. Chinese makers have proliferated because there is a market for small devices that have external monitors, etc.

I think you're using your 2000's brain and not updating your firmware to the modern consumer appliance. We're watching computer tech growth decline sharply with fewer leaps and bounds.

So when I hear about this upgrade stuff, it's just sounds like 'get off my lawn' when it comes to this specific type of mini pc.

Frameworks laptops are upgradeable, that's their whole thing.

> It's not surprising if you understand that minipcs are basically all just using laptop parts.

That makes it more surprising. It's not that desktops went off in a different direction. Desktops are moving closer to their area of expertise and yet they are unable to apply that expertise.

But their own laptops happen to have upgrade-able memory. Truly, it is just unjustifiable.