Yep, we’ll be writing up some Knowledge Base content with more detail on this. It requires some detail, because there are basically two levels of compatibility:
- Compatibility that is thoroughly tested and validated for full functionality.
- Things that connect together that happen to work, but may or may not work well or do the thing you want them to do.
As a concrete example of this, purely physically and electrically, you can take a current 12th Gen Intel Core-based Framework Laptop and swap just the Mainboard for a Chromebook Edition Mainboard, but:
- The webcam and touchpad firmwares for ChromeOS are different, so they may or may not enumerate or work correctly.
- ChromeOS has a specific compatibility list for SSDs that doesn’t currently include the SN750, SN770, or SN850 drives we sell on the Marketplace, but does include SN730. In practice, the other drives will probably work anyway, but neither we nor Google will promise that.
- The keyboard is going to be confusing, because the function keys and some of the meta keys are different on Chromebooks.
- WiFi probably won’t work if you have an AX210.
- The speakers won’t be the same ones as what comes on the Chromebook Edition, though will otherwise work fine.
- The Top Cover will be the CNC one instead of the original 11th Gen-style formed one that Chromebook Edition comes with.
- The Fingerprint Reader won’t work, and will only act as a power button.
Each one of those things are items that can be resolved by picking up the relevant Chromebook Edition module from the Marketplace.