Hopefully there will be a socket in the Avantis consoles to plug the FX chip into.
While I have not checked myself, other people have confirmed that an expansion slot is there…..
Honestly it is in a manufacturer’s best interest to include a slot like this for future upgrades. It allows the manufacturer to extend the life expectancy of a system by upgrading or adding to it’s processing power. Designing consoles is time consuming and expensive and it is certainly more profitable to extend the life of an existing system than design and release an entirely new system. Therefore once a system hits a certainly price point, the cost to add an expansion “slot” is relatively low and I suspect most console manufacturers add one. That being said, you aren’t going to see it on the low priced systems because the relative cost to add the “slot” is higher than it is worth.
For example, if adding an expansion slot “costs” $100/unit in R&D resources and hardware expenses, it’s totally worth that extra cost to add it to a $10,000 console for the chance to potentially extend the model’s sales lifecycle with a future upgrade. On the other hand, it would not be worth the extra cost to add it to a $1000 console.
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