Lenovo’s modular laptop concept gives you flexibility over your ports, keyboard, and display(s)

Lenovo ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept is a laptop that brings together a bunch of interesting ideas. Like a Framework Laptop, it features a modular port system that lets you swap out a USB port for HDMI, among other things. And like an Asus Zenbook Duo or Lenovo Yoga Book 9i, it’s a dual-screen laptop.

But here’s where things get interesting… and kind of weird. That second screen? It’s […]

Lenovo doubles down on adaptive AI PCs and bold hardware at MWC 2026

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Raspberry Pi CM5-powered Argon One laptop is now shipping to Kickstarter backers

The Argon ONE UP is a modular laptop with a 14 inch FHD+ display, a 55 Wh battery, and an M.2 slot for an SSD. What makes the Argon ONE UP unlike most laptops though is that it has a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 for brains.

Argon Forty launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the Argon ONE UP last summer, and now the company has begun shipping the laptop to backers. Folks who missed […]

RCORE V2 is a 2nd-gen RK3588 module for MNT Reform laptops

The MNT Reform line of laptops are hacker-friendly computers that are designed to be modular, repairable, upgradeable, and customizable. At launch the MNT Reform and MNT Pocket Reform both shipped with NXP i.MX8M series processors, but since the processor is part of a removable module, MNT has also offered other options including modules with Allwinner A311D, Layerscape LS1028A and Broadcomm […]

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Might have to get a #FrameworkLaptop next time i need one ..

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Framework Laptop 13 gets an AMD Ryzen 300 update

The Framework Laptop 13 is a modular repairable laptop that first debuted in 2021. But thanks to the fact that the processor (and just about every other component) can be removed and replaced, the new model for 2025 looks exactly the same as earlier models. But it has a new motherboard powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series processors, with support for up to a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point […]

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Argon40 is making a Raspberry Pi CM5-powered laptop

Argon40 is a company that sells Raspberry Pi accessories including cases, power supplies, cooling modules, and a kit that lets you transform a single-board computer into a network-attached storage device.

Now Argon40 is working on its first laptop computer. But unsurprisingly it will be a laptop that’s powered by a Raspberry Pi. The company hasn’t released many details yet, but a post on […]

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This compact gaming laptop has a replaceable NVIDIA RTX 4060 GPU

When you buy or build a desktop gaming PC, you often get to choose your CPU, graphics card, memory, storage, and other hardware. And if you want to upgrade any of those components in the future, you can just pop out the old part and replace it with something new.

But most modern laptops aren’t nearly as flexible.  While some allow you to replace memory or storage, that’s not a given these days. And while it’s not impossible to find models with a user-replaceable CPU or GPU, those features are still extraordinarily rare. So it’s interesting to see that a Chinese PC company called Tongfang has designed a laptop with a modular motherboard that puts the CPU and GPU on different boards, opening the possibility that you could upgrade or replace one without disturbing the other. It’s called the GX2.0 modular motherboard, and the first laptop based on this design is expected to be the Firebat 16 Air, which should be available for purchase in China soon from JD.com.

The laptop is a 16 inch notebook that measures just 18mm (0.71″) thick and weighs just 1.98 kg (4.37 pounds), which makes the Firebat 16 Air pretty compact for a gaming notebook. That suggests the modular design doesn’t necessarily add a lot of thickness or weight to the laptop.

But it does add to the flexibility of the notebook. Instead of a single mainboard with the CPU, graphics, and other components soldered to it, the Tongfang/Firebat laptop has a mainboard featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, two SODIMM slots for DDR5 memory, an M.2 slot for PCIe NVMe storage, and another for a wireless card.

But there’s also a separate board that features an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU for discrete graphics. The laptop’s display HDMI 2.1 and Mini DisplayPort 1.4 ports are attached to this board.

The design theoretically opens the possibility of replacing the GPU board without buying a whole new laptop or replacing the CPU board. But I’m going to stress that this remains a theoretical possibility for now. I haven’t seen any evidence that Firebat, Tongfang, or any other company has announced a compatible GPU board with a different graphics processor yet.

Some of the laptop’s other features include an 80 Wh battery, 2 USB4 ports with support for 100W USB power delivery and video output, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, a USB 2.0 Type-A port, a headset jack, SD card reader, and Gigabit Ethernet port.

via @realVictor_M and  VideoCardz 

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