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Post by vbernat »

koyote wrote: post #165
nrp wrote: post #135

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It actually would put us in a similar category to Thinkpads from the 2000's and early 2010's, but with modern hardware, a thin and light form factor, an upgradeable mainboard, and customizable ports with Expansion Cards!

Fair point, my newer (late 2010s) Thinkpad has soldered RAM which is a step in the wrong direction, so this is definitely an interesting product.

LPDDR4 is always soldered. There are Thinkpad with DDR4 if you prefer. They are usually heavier, thicker and/or more expensive (pick two). This includes the X1 Extreme Gen2 or the T14.

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Post by Frameworkscr »

emacsen wrote: post #150
nrp wrote: post #135

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It actually would put us in a similar category to Thinkpads from the 2000's and early 2010's, but with modern hardware, a thin and light form factor, an upgradeable mainboard, and customizable ports with Expansion Cards!

I've noticed that you said you're here to answer all questions, but then you've been selectively not answering a lot of questions, like mine, and others who ask pointed, specific questions rather than mostly fluff. I buy lots of "gadgets"- a Pinephone, LibreM phone, a PiTop, 2 MNT Reform laptops, several OLPC XO-1 laptops- and that's just my current collection (rather than my older collection of even more obscure har…

Perhaps because the long term prqfmatism js that they build a viable business first.

Thr problem with oss is its fanatics.

(not associated, fake username)

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Post by nrp »

Dracophoenix wrote: post #169
nrp wrote: post #48

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1) We can't announce anything yet, but our current 13.5" Framework Laptop will certainly not be the last product we ever build! 2) See question 1. 3) We've designed the bezel to be color customizable, and there are some photos of orange and white ones on our website. We'll be adding more colors as we go. For the chassis itself, it is anodized aluminum. We don't currently have plans for additional aluminum colors thou…

I edited the 4th question. Hopefully you see and answer 4b! Thanks for answering my other questions. I'll certainly be looking forward to your product as more information and metrics materialize.

Yep! The keys are backlit.

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Post by gilbertbw »

dylan604 wrote: post #58
tomComb wrote: post #52

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I find numpad throws off the alignment of the keyboard relative to the touchpad and to the weight of the device. You clearly want a numpad, but I would suggest most users should avoid them, particularly if the will use the laptop on their lap.

I would love to have a 10-key option, and to that end I have attempted using a wireless option. That device however won't even pair to my laptop. I would even be willing to use a wired one, but not enough of me to make it viable for someone to make. So many shortcut keys in my software are missing for a laptop keyboard. Instead, I have to use a full sized external keyboard and carry it around with me instead of just…

I might be understanding, but is something like this https://kinesis-ergo.com/products/#keypads what you’re looking for?

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Post by nrp »

silon42 wrote: post #194
nrp wrote: post #187

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We're currently shipping to the US and Canada. We're working on adding additional countries, and making sure we can offer proper support in addition to being able to ship the product there.

Yes, for Europe you need keyboard with ISO layout (upside down Enter + extra key).

Definitely. We have ISO keyboards tooled up and are finalizing the artwork for different languages for it.

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Post by baybal2 »

marilyn2 wrote: post #177

This is great! Was about to order an XPS or Thinkpad but think I'll go with this instead! How many external displays does it support? Would I need thunderbolt (would that just be a $9 adapter???)? I'd like to connect at least 3 external displays (so 4 total screens including the laptop). Is that possible? Thanks!

No thunderbolt on it.

Thunderbolt is very hard to implement.

Re: The Framework Laptop is now shipping

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Post by nrp »

naturalauction wrote: post #193

Very specific question but how much is a replacement screen and can you do the repair yourself with just a screwdriver? I’ve somehow broken my screen twice with each of my last two laptops and at least for the MacBook, screen replacements were like $400 a pop.

You can replace the screen with just a screwdriver (in fact, the screwdriver we include in the box with every Framework Laptop). We haven't set pricing for this replacement module yet, but our general philosophy around repair part pricing is to make it the obvious choice to do the repair.

Edit: This is actually one of the guides we published recently: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Display+Replacement+Guide/86...

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Post by Frameworkscr »

nrp wrote: post #23
aftergibson wrote: post #14

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Yeah the fact that Linux supporter isn’t listed makes me pause on making a purchase, especially when it’s from a new laptop maker. Hopefully on release we can get some confirmations about how well it runs.

We'll be posting up step by step installation and use guides for a few popular distros soon. We sent pre-release hardware out to developers and maintainers at a few distros and have been working with them on this. In the meantime, we also have a Linux sub-forum in our community where we expect folks will post their experiences with more obscure distros: https://community.frame.work/c/diy-edition/linux/91

Very humbly from a full time linux user of 16 years- Id recommend you avoid their crowd- they are entitled and toxic. (as perhaps urself have noticed in this threas)

https://mobile.twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760...

(personally id love to see linux supported well haha, bjt seriously good luck)

I wish you guys to succeed.

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