It would fit.
In fact community members have already made dual USB-A cards by taking existing USB splitters and modifying them to fit (similar to how people were taking SD card readers and filing them down to fit before Framework announced their official one).
IMO the big problem is that the USB-A ports would be so close side to side that many USB-A plugs being plugged in would block the other port.
IMO the big problem is that the USB-A ports would be so close side to side that many USB-A plugs being plugged in would block the other port
yeah thats what i meant to say, i should have been more clear
That’s been in the works, see Josh Cook's dual USB-C expansion card. Unfortunately it looks like the board designers/makers that he was talking with who were doing the work have flaked and ghosted him. sigh So for now, back to nothing. We’ll see what happens, he might have to go find some other design shop, or end up having to refund the pre-orders. I hope not. I really want a dual USB-C.
KVM input.
Has anyone said that yet?
I can’t believe I didn’t say this first thing years ago. I’ve ALWAYS wished for this since I use kvms and crash-carts a lot and it’s super annoying. The best option these days is pikvm but that requires a power source and network setup. Previously it was SpiderLinx, an expensive commercial thing that does the same as pikvm.
Essentially hdmi capture and usb client.
aka Nexdock or CrowView, but if the Nexdock was actually a full laptop instead of just a kvm.
It would need 2 physical ports crammed into the slot, and that means annoying mini-hdmi or micro-hdmi like on pi’s. But they do exist and thanks to pi’s you can actually buy adapter cables.
Or, actually I would be ok with a solution that used 2 slots. One for hdmi input and one for usb output. I would rather that than need special adapter cables since that’s just another kind of special dongle even if it doesn’t have electronics, a special cable is still an external part that must be present or else the feature isn’t usable.
Alternative to NexDock/CrowView which are dedicated whole kvm devices, GPD pocket 3 is a full (if small) laptop with an optional kvm module.
https://www.gpd.hk/gpdpocket3
OMG YES. So much this! If it is possible it would turn my laptop into a crash cart while in the datacenter.
It could also be useful for setting hobby raspberry pi boards and the like.
I see it has been said before.
This is a little far out, but would it be possible to have an HDMI in to the laptop’s screen?
Welcome to the forum! TLDR, not really with the IO structure of the laptop, iirc the thing that prevents that is using usb4/TB4 for all of the ports that go into the adapter
It might be possible to build an HDMI capture device into an expansion card.
You could then either just display the stream or even composite/record it on the laptop. On the other hand, there will be a lot more latency than if you had a native HDMI input to the screen.
There have been some ridiculously tiny KVM devices recently which provide HDMI signal capture among other things.
uhhh maybe. iirc the size and thermal profile of an expansion card doesnt allowed for it, iirc it was discussed earlier in the thread
yes but no real server use HDMI. If you need a bluescreen cart, you need VGA. Startech does sell one, but its not cheap.
I get it you can like, KVM your desktop and whatever and that’s cool. But there isn’t really a big market for them.
Perhaps, but say that you were to solder wires directly to the display board, and then perhaps those to pogo pins on the card? All wildly hypothetical btw
You can do a lot if you’re willing to invest enough effort. But there is the question of if it’s worth it.
I think feeding directly into the display would have problems. And just tapping in would be a lot of effort to begin with. The display cables aren’t made up of plain wires. Each wire is micro-coax to maintain signal integrity. That’s not easy to solder. In addition, laptop motherboard display connectors don’t follow a standard pinout, so the cables are custom. You can’t just buy a splitter cable compatible with the FW mainboard connector.
Fair enough. Thanks to everyone who responded for your feedback!
I would love a secondary wifi card with an external antenna connector for longer-range and dual wifi-nic applications
this is awesome, I like it
Oculink for connecting storage and eGPU
Often I just want to connect things like my flipper zero, iphone or ssd and dislike that i have to carry around a cable.
I know there is not a lot of space 
Yeah, there is basically no room for any sort of mechanism which would allow that… It would be MUCH larger than the expansion card slot, likely sticking both down and out
Maybe you could get away with hiding a tiny adapter like this, and put like 0,5 cm of cable in between the connectors, so it can come out just enough to plug in to something and be flexible enough not to brake.