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Indeed peripherals like printers usually have "mainboards" and not motherboards.

Some vendors traditionally use different names, like apple uses "logic board"



Slight nitpick: the full phrasing Apple uses is “main logic board”, so they’re actually (somewhat) in line with the conventional phrasing other vendors use.




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