The modules are available from Intel. You're locked into some of our custom components, true. But this is miles better than anything else on the market.
The friction is both what we experienced as part of adoption and in my personal experience. Actual personal experiences may vary, of course.
>The modules are available from Intel. You're locked into some of our custom components, true. But this is miles better than anything else on the market.
I didn't realize you were involved in this company until I read your other comments. It is unclear what "You're locked into some of our custom components" means. Can a average techie, maybe someone who is comfortable opening their laptop to add RAM or new storage but wouldn't be comfortable making any other hardware changes, upgrade this with off the shelf parts? If the answer is yes, that should be in your marketing material. If the answer is no and you can't commit to selling these custom modules, then I stick to my original point.
Yes, about as easy as opening a laptop. Unscrew some screws, lift a cover, install a new M.2 SSD or whatever. This is a picture of the "standard" assembly: https://i.kane.cx/NFIpf4 -- compute element slots into a connector, and there's the standard M.2 slot etc. Ours won't be too different, just a different form factor/connectors/additional features.
We're committing to selling all custom parts for at least a few years, but I can't give a hard number on how long. I'd say 4 years for sure.
Yeah I get the concern. Following the project for the past 3 months one knows this information; but unless you're following development on discord/matrix or GitHub there's no way to know upgradability is a cornerstone of this project. Seeing 0 upgradability from Apple makes you leery of everyone.
The friction is both what we experienced as part of adoption and in my personal experience. Actual personal experiences may vary, of course.