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I'm hoping by the next time I go laptop shopping that they've released a model with more USB C ports. This is phenomenal work though.
I’m ordering the day the Thunderbolt expansion card becomes available. I just can’t make use of a laptop that I can’t plug my eGPU into.
The USB-C ports on it are allegedly thunderbolt4 in all but name, waiting on certification: https://community.frame.work/t/thunderbolt-4/255/13 There are people in that thread saying they've run egpus off it.
USB-C is a specification and Thunderbolt is a certification. They are in process on the certification.
The processors they use support Thunderbolt and people have been using Thunderbolt accessories with it (you can see that in the forum).
I'm hoping by the next time I go laptop shopping that they've released a model with more USB C ports. This is phenomenal work though.
More ports? There are 4 slots and you can put in what you want. If you want all 4 to be USB-C you can have that. Are you looking for more than 4 slots? If that's the case you'll have to wait for different processors. I think the ones they are using only support up to 4 slots.
And I would miss Ethernet currently :)
I can't wait to own one of these when they start offering AMD
Simply out of curiosity, why do you have this sentiment? I've seen it given a lot as the reason why people don't want to buy one yet, but the performance differences are slim compared the current Tiger Lake option; perhaps 10-20% on certain quad core workloads, more if optimized for octa, but worse on single and dual. Additionally, by the time the Ryzen CPU comes along, likely the Alder Lake processor will be release…
How do I buy one without giving money to Microsoft?
They're actively working on making it work well with linux: https://frame.work/blog/linux-on-the-framework-laptop
How do I buy one without giving money to Microsoft?
Hope they will be available soon.
Will it ever ship with coreboot and linux support ?
As for Linux support, it's already there. There are papercuts, like needing a fairly recent kernel and certain packages (for the fingerprint reader), but it works fine, by all accounts.
I'm expecting my DIY edition to ship in the next week or so, and I'll be running Linux on it full-time.