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Got one here, AMA!
Got one here, AMA!
How does the trackpad compare to a MacBook trackpad?
Your mileage may vary as people have different sized fingers and such.
It's a far cry even from my old Google Pixelbook, which is a (distant) second best touchpad I've used.
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How does the trackpad compare to a MacBook trackpad?
Besides the actual hardware, I think the biggest problem is the software implementation of trackpads in Linux (at least in libinput/Wayland). Even running Linux on my Macbook, the trackpad experience is vastly inferior to macOS. I don't care too much about gestures, but mostly about stable palm rejection and proper acceleration curves. The current implementations sadly provide neither.
It's been good for me; I think it'll be great soon. AMD support on Linux is the biggest issue. The upgrade experience from the Intel 12th gen to a Ryzen 5 took about a half-hour, doing only the mainboard and no display or hinge upgrades, and I was already familiar with the internals from assembling it as a DIY. It's not trivially easy, and there were a few frustrating moments that aren't unique to the Framework (ok,…
I am very surprised to hear reports of poor Linux support for AMD devices. I recently purchased a GPD Win Max 2 [1] and a GPD Win 4 [2] for work. Both devices are AMD 7840U with Radeon 780M (and 64 GiB RAM at 6400 MT/s since I saw what appeared to be instability at 7500 MT/s.) I installed Archlinux on both and the support has been very solid with the `linux-lts` kernel and only one kernel flag (`amd_pstate=guided`.)…
And I want to emphasize that the "support" as in Framework responding to and shipping fixes has been good. The "support" as in the hardware working consistently, particularly in Linux and without distro-specific workarounds, has had holes which sound common enough outside of Framework devices that I'd wager the GPDs are the exception more than the rule.
I'll say at least that the Framework's fingerprint reader and display settings Just Worked through the upgrade.
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I am very surprised to hear reports of poor Linux support for AMD devices. I recently purchased a GPD Win Max 2 [1] and a GPD Win 4 [2] for work. Both devices are AMD 7840U with Radeon 780M (and 64 GiB RAM at 6400 MT/s since I saw what appeared to be instability at 7500 MT/s.) I installed Archlinux on both and the support has been very solid with the `linux-lts` kernel and only one kernel flag (`amd_pstate=guided`.)…
Framework's been transparent through the process about firmware issues being part of their mainboard development. A lot of their problems are specific to the intersection of their expansion slot/USB-C port capabilities, particularly power draw and PD/DP capabilities, and AMD's firmware for mainboard components. I'm not surprised that GPDs have a more solid experience as they're not expected to be as flexible. And I w…
My assumption prior to purchasing these devices was that AMD support would be the main reason for me returning them.
I was quite surprised to see just how well everything worked, and, in fact, these devices have given me much less trouble than my i7-1165G7 Dell XPS 13".
In fact, these devices has worked so well that it's really made me more excited about consumer technology and new laptops and portables than I have been in a long time!
I am worried that I may be mistakenly generalising this to all AMD devices. I have even been considering ditching Intel for my next laptop upgrade…
Got one here, AMA!
Which linux distro did you install and have you had any issues?
The biggest issues are setting up a workaround for staying in sleep/suspend while the lid's closed but plugged in: https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-framework-amd-ryzen-...
And flipping a VRAM flag to avoid GPU memory allocation issues: https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-graphical-corruption...
Neither of which is Fedora specific, and both of which might be resolved via update.
Got one here, AMA!
Does the pressure to click on the trackpad feel 'even' across the entire trackpad? For example, does clicking at the top feel the same as the bottom? That's something I never got used to on my ThinkPad, clicking on the top is basically impossible.
I'm in batch 8 for one of these and simply can not wait to get to start using it (my current T460s has really started feeling slow in the last year).
Been there; web sites are rather heavy nowadays and two cores, combined with everything else running on the system, just can't keep up anymore.
Got one here, AMA!
What's your typical battery life like? The only thing keeping me on my M1 MacBook is only having to charge it ~2x per week.