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Microsoft plans to release a 50-inch version of Surface Hub in 2019 that can be upgraded the following year by using a removable "processor cartridge":
Microsoft is unveiling hardware changes to its Surface Hub 2 today. The software giant first unveiled its 50-inch display earlier this year, with a promise of a 2019 release. While the hardware will now be released in Q2 of 2019, many of the cool new software features will require a hardware and software update set to launch in 2020.
Microsoft is planning to use removable processor cartridges in its Surface Hub 2S product that launches next year, and users will be able to purchase an upgrade cartridge to the Surface Hub 2X in 2020. The cartridges slot into the back of the Surface Hub 2 hardware and can be upgraded or serviced. Microsoft's hardware upgrades sound similar to Samsung's previous efforts with smart TVs that you could upgrade each year with an "evolution kit" that updated the processor.
Also at Ars Technica, Engadget, and The Register.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by black6host on Tuesday September 25 2018, @12:00PM
This reminds me of the old Pentium IIs with its cartridge based form factor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_II [wikipedia.org] Used to have an old Micron server running Novell and the chip crapped out on me. Well, all the desktops were PIIs so I just pulled out a cartridge from an unused machine, put it in the server and the network was back up and running in 15 minutes. Sure the replacement cartridge was a little slower but no one could tell the difference as the disks were the bottleneck on the server.
Easiest critical repair I've ever done.