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How big does framework have to grow before they can provide color options.
I'm also interested in this. It's literally the only thing holding me back from getting one. If I spend $3k+ on a machine I don't want it to look like an off-brand Macbook.
My 11th gen Intel Framework is my only PC and has been a great machine. I use it for dev, gaming, and general computing. Integrated Intel graphics goes surprisingly far if you run games at 720p - Skyrim, Dishonered, the Mass Effects, and more recently Battlebit all run well. I'd imagine the more recent Ryzens would be much better. I want the 16 for more screen real-estate and better gaming; I've had family notice my…
My AMD Framework 13 occasionally hangs and requires hard reset to come back to life. No errors are generated. As far as I can tell it instantly and unpredictably stops executing any instructions at all. There hasn't been a driver or firmware update in three months. The keyboard and trackpad are mediocre. The fan vents are on the bottom of the computer where they're almost permanently blocked. It's not a terrible comp…
I agree, the input devices leave something to be desired. I dream of grafting a MBP keyboard and trackpad onto my FW13.
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> Even though Fedora is (afaict?) the best supposed Linux distro As someone who had a 12th-gen mainboard and upgraded to an AMD board, and assuming you meant "supported" here, the rest of the points here are fine but this one rather explicitly is off. Ubuntu is the primary supported distro across the board: https://frame.work/linux Fedora was recommended for AMD mainboards when Framework started shipping them, becaus…
There isn't really anything on that page says Ubuntu is the primary supported distro and Fedora isn't. They seem to both be equally supported with no preference according to both the listings and the wording on the page.
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> I really want to see the docking station that can double as an eGPU using the FW16 discrete GPU module Yes! As another owner of the FW13, if they released some kind of external adapter for the FW16 GPU I'd definitely purchase the GPU and the adapter the day its open for sale.
We showed a proof of concept of exactly this actually at our initial launch event for Framework Laptop 16 last year. It's still something we see as an interesting use case to support, but we don't have a timeline around productization of it.
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You're not alone with the cooking laptop in a bag running Linux issue. I had those in the past with Dell/Toshiba laptops in the past.
It's funny but sad how this has literally been an issue for 20+ years and yet still no one can fix it. I've tried with many laptops, both Windows and Linux, and the only one that can reliably go into a backpack with >90% charge and come out after a flight with >80% is a Macbook, and that's also been true for more than a decade.
It’s excellent in that I can suspend any software and have it come back to life exactly the way I expect (no small feat!) and it’s excellent that it never cooks itself when unattended in a case or bag, but it is total trash that it eats 20-30% battery a day while “off”. That’s not a bug, but expected behavior. It’s just not what I have come to expect from a modern computer, and portable Macs haven’t behaved that way since about 2005.
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Battery is what prevents me from taking my 13 framework with me when traveling. I spend most of my time in pycharm, rebuild docker containers constantly, and have celery + postgres + redis running full tilt. The fan is running constantly, it's always burning hot, and the battery lasts under 2 hours (if I'm really lucky). Previous generation Macbook running the same workload last for 6+ hours. That said, for someone w…
Mildly curious what kind of task requires that usage profile on a laptop (in general but especially while traveling?)
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Battery is what prevents me from taking my 13 framework with me when traveling. I spend most of my time in pycharm, rebuild docker containers constantly, and have celery + postgres + redis running full tilt. The fan is running constantly, it's always burning hot, and the battery lasts under 2 hours (if I'm really lucky). Previous generation Macbook running the same workload last for 6+ hours. That said, for someone w…
At the end of the day, all the work a CPU does turns into heat. If you want less heat you need the CPU to do fewer calculations. If you have processes pegging CPUs at 100% and you don't want them to, then use a cgroup to limit their CPU time.
You do understand that different machines can do the same calculations with different amounts of energy, right?
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> Each country has different regulation placing a lot of obligations on the seller. Such as? Just curious
Warranty terms, language support, needing a legal representative in every country, to start.
That's the whole damn point of the EU.
I think there might be some regulation on having the instructions written in the native language, but that's like 100€ to a translator for an one-time job. No laptop comes with an extensive manual.
Warranty terms are EU-wide too mostly, there are some country-specific exceptions, but nothing that would require a huge legal team to handle.
Two improvements: matte screen and note than anything else physical buttons on the touchpad. I don't mind if they make the touchpad any smaller. I don't need all the area of the touchpads of the last years.
I wonder if some other company will make accessories for the Framework, starting from the touchpad.
By the way, I'd buy the laptop without the number pad and finally get a touchpad / keyboard combination centered with the screen and my body.