Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions

Post by Prickle » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 2:45 AM UTC

holografix wrote: post #15

kvark wrote: post #8

I’m looking forward to solutions with Linux that are vertically integrated. I know System76 is moving in this direction, but Apple will remain the king in this area in the near future. Without vertical integration it’s a mess, no party wants to control the end to end experience and take responsibility.

100% agree. At this price point who has the time to debug wifi?!

Me.

Ironically enough, my Dell laptop arrived without a working wifi card. They had a bios update at some point which made it less crap, but I had to replace it after the nth time where it seemingly just randomly turned itself off /hard crashed.

Now that I think of it, I must have some really bad luck. Every single laptop I have owned, has has a wifi issue at some point.

Post by imp0cat » Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 7:17 AM UTC

vladvasiliu wrote: post #98

imp0cat wrote: post #56

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I have the 845 G8 and can echo most of your sentiment. It's a fast, well made and easily repairable/upgradable machine (ie. no soldered RAM modules). However, HP's software is less than stellar. What annoys me the most is the fact that the latest BIOS update completely broke USB-C dock and monitor detection.

I'm typing this on one of those, and on paper it's indeed a nice little machine. But oh my god, the screen is ridiculously bad. When I got it a few years ago, I didn't think it was still possible to have such atrocious screens on a 1500+ € machine... Also, assembly quality seems hit or miss with these. Mine is OK, but on the one from work, the black plastic surrounding the screen is misaligned with the hinge.

Oh yeah, the ghosting on that screen is terrible, I have never seen such a bad screen.

But then again, I mostly use it with an external monitor, so I don't care that much.

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