For a while, it didn’t make sense to replace a CPU. Screens and hard drives were advancing around the same speed as CPUs (if not faster, the biggest advances in laptops until pretty recently were OLED screens and NVME drives).
CPU competition picked up a while ago when AMD got their stuff together, but it takes time to turn the boat around, if it is actually turning.
On the other hand we didn’t see laptop CPU replacement as a really mainstream thing during the 90’s/early 2000’s era when things were really going crazy.
On the other other hand, everybody knew desktop PCs were the way to go for performance back then, so tinkering with laptop performance would have been a somewhat odd thing to do.
Hard to speculate about or even measure, because people who tinker with hardware are in a pretty small niche already.
CPU competition picked up a while ago when AMD got their stuff together, but it takes time to turn the boat around, if it is actually turning.
On the other hand we didn’t see laptop CPU replacement as a really mainstream thing during the 90’s/early 2000’s era when things were really going crazy.
On the other other hand, everybody knew desktop PCs were the way to go for performance back then, so tinkering with laptop performance would have been a somewhat odd thing to do.
Hard to speculate about or even measure, because people who tinker with hardware are in a pretty small niche already.