Great. Another laptop with 1/2 arrow keys. Such a shame.
I feel you. IMHO Lenovo still makes the best laptop keybaord layouts for coding, typing and gaming. Check out their Legion series.
The Framework Laptop
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#22Looks promising, but having AMD chips would be killer.
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#23As someone who swaps laptops out a lot, I'm down to get one. I'm also the same kind of person that buys an X1 Extreme for it's ability to be repaired. I'm also curious about price, but I'm assuming that hasn't been decided. That said: > Founded in San Francisco in 2019 I'd love to see these kind of companies founded outside of this area in the future.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
In what way?
it will be expensive because it liiks like the first teuly modular laptop. it will get cheaper if it has a big enough market. so in a long enough time frame it does not matter
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#25It might be worth publishing enough of the internal CAD measurements as specs so that artists could create their own enclosures / cool addons and be sure that they will have parts access.
Anyway, my first thought was ‘will an m1 board fit in there?’ so I am looking forward to seeing your release!
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#26Will it run with completely free software? The limiting factor for lasting is not hardware but required proprietary software.
[Edit: Thanks for all the replies citing driver blobs and proprietary BIOS issues, totally slipped my mind that that was a concern, makes a ton more sense now.]
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Framework founder here. We'll be announcing pricing shortly before we open pre-orders this spring. We won't be asking consumers to pay a premium for longevity, and will be setting pricing to be comparable to other popular notebooks using the same silicon.
What about shipping and deliveries to regions other than US, like EU for example? How will your volumes look during this silicon shortage?
We placed our forecasts and risk buys on most chips early in anticipation of the silicon crunch that is coming this year. So far, we don't see anything that puts us at risk, short of there being massive unexpected upside on consumer demand (a good problem to have!).
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#28Great. Another laptop with 1/2 arrow keys. Such a shame.
I'm using my Acer now more as a dev laptop and my Mac more as a free time laptop. What I'm noticing is that I'm enjoying the typing experience on the Nitro 5 more, in particular because it has decent arrows (and a numpad :) ).
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#29As someone who swaps laptops out a lot, I'm down to get one. I'm also the same kind of person that buys an X1 Extreme for it's ability to be repaired. I'm also curious about price, but I'm assuming that hasn't been decided. That said: > Founded in San Francisco in 2019 I'd love to see these kind of companies founded outside of this area in the future.
Remote work may solve some of this, but eventually the extended runways available at "lower altitudes" (to bend the metaphor) will become worthwhile.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
In what way?
it will be expensive because it liiks like the first teuly modular laptop. it will get cheaper if it has a big enough market. so in a long enough time frame it does not matter