The connectors and cases for the components are certainly new… the difference being will it be new like USB, or new like Thunderbolt? Both standards… one open for anyone to make a USB thing for… the other developed by Intel, bought by Apple, and make into a revenue stream built on $50 cables.
Thunderbolt actually is a good example for a standard allowing for multiple upgrades… since its a combination of a USB and pci-e bus. Thats more or less everything you plug computer components into a computer with… across one standard. And with plug and play… yeah the foundation for magic module A replaced with module B is there.
Agreed its lots of packaging. However… if people could actually just buy moar GPUs, rather than replacing the one or two GPUs over and over, then a desktop with 3-4 GPUs would be less wasteful overall… extending the useful life of components for longer.
Yeah… the 10 minutes with a screwdriver thing is completely true. Its easy to build a PC if you know how, and easy to find out how. This is certainly a product that seeks to capture the lucrative “more money than brains” market… but I think its the kind of innovation the PC market needs to start selling them again.
