Are there some small "PC in a box", somewhere in the middle of a Raspberry Pi & a full PC, like a laptop without a screen, keyboard or mouse? Something small enough to carry around like a laptop with easy-to-upgrade hardware like SSDs & RAM.

@ChocolateOverflow NUC?

Those are essentially those

(NUC is "intel"'s original spec, but AMD systems in the same form factor exist)

there's also industrial router boxen that are about the same size but heaviler cause they have heavy aluminium/heatsink cases

they seem like an interesting choice but looks like a general full-size work station would be better

Well there's flex atx, mini itx....

There's these AliExpress boxen that pair a laptop CPU with a small midrange GPU. Nvidia 1660 or 1050ti

I'm looking at the [framework laptop](frame.work/) and having an HDMI slot is $10 more expensive than USB A/C. I can find some cheap HDMI to USB adapters for <$5. Is there much of a point investing in the HDMI slot if I only sometimes use it for presentations?

@ChocolateOverflow all the slots on the framework are USB-C thunderbolt 4

in theory you could pop a USB C to whatever cable straght to a USB C port

Would it be better to just not have a USB C slot and just plug in directly to thunderbolt? I guess not using the card would just be an issue with really big plugs

My laptop is still working fine so it'll probably have changed quite a bit by the time I get to buying the framework but I like thinking about it