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Of course, having replaceable CPUs on laptops would open up a huge market for people buying new CPUs to install.
My laptop I used through university just a few years ago, an HP Elitebook 840 G3 had a toolless bottom panel that popped off to allow access to the battery, wifi card, m.2, SATA drive, and RAM. I upped to to 16gb RAM and put a m.2 drive in both for cheap and it was a capable computer and still gets used today. Why can't we still do that?
I have an old alienware laptop where you could swap the CPU and GPU on it. It was still trash (the thing died after about 3yrs; idk why I still have it), but it was a cool hidden feature.
Edit: of course, a normal CPU or GPU wouldn't work in it, you needed one that used a different socket than their desktop equivalents and were significantly more expensive. Still a neat feature though.