Quote from: Wesley on Today at 10:33:48full size 2280 nvme
From what I understand, it does appear to have a slot which can accept 2280 drives, it's just that the installed SSD drive is 2242.
Regarding the price tag, it still wouldn't sell well even if it were cheap. Enthusiasts often forget that for the average buyer the windows experience is terrible. So perhaps they went about it the right way going after the premium market, financially speaking.
If we look at the sales data of all the 1st gen windows handhelds (Rog ally, MSI claw, legion go), they all got outsold by the steam deck which itself got outsold by the switch.
I also do feel the blame is a little misplaced here. AMD never build their serious APUs for the pc market. In the next 2 years they will apparently be producing a SoC for Sony's future upcoming portable handheld device and that will be 3x-4x faster than the deck for ~$500. So you can pretty much tell which clients they value who they don't (consumer pc market), when looking at the performance to price ratio of that.
AMD treat the Z series and pc handhelds in general as just a way to sell off badly binned and disabled laptop chips they still haven't managed to sell because they overpriced them and refused to sell any lower leading to such excess inventory.