I wonder if they’ll ever make a tablet or tablet laptop hybrid
Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
11–20 of 50 posts
Re: Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
#12Framework is killing it and I absolutely love it. I have no need for a laptop right now, but if I ever buy another one, they'll definitely be at the top of my list. The only concern I have is with screen resolution. I'm using a MacBook and the screen resolution is an absolute blessing.
Re: Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
#13Framework is killing it and I absolutely love it. I have no need for a laptop right now, but if I ever buy another one, they'll definitely be at the top of my list. The only concern I have is with screen resolution. I'm using a MacBook and the screen resolution is an absolute blessing.
The framework does 2256 x 1504, the 13,3 inch macbook pro does 2560 x 1600. Doesn't seem like that large of a difference, especially at that screen size.
Re: Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
#14Really impressive that they provide instructions to solder the old cards up towards the new spec. Fully out of my range of talents, but does show they genuinely care about what they preach.
This really impressed me. Can you imagine Dell or Apple doing this?
No, but I also can't imagine Apple shipping something that needed a bodge wire soldered in to make it work well. They do a lot more power consumption engineering than most PC companies and they operate on such a large scale that they'd have found out about a battery drain like this much sooner and could fix it in the production process.
Re: Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
When GDPR went into effect, our company had ~5 clients in the EU (out of thousands). It was cheaper to drop those 5 clients than attempt to even read and comply with the regulation. We weren’t even doing anything nefarious, it just wasn’t worth our time to spend any brainpower thinking about it.
Haven't heard of the 1995 data regulation I suppose then, or that it's mostly common sense to tell what you do with other people's personal information, but sure, drop out of the entire market over this. I think the parent commenter was complaining about things that aren't EU-wide. This was and you're saying it's still not good enough
Er, I like GDPR, and it was EU-wide, but each member still would have to write its own framework into its legal system to implement GDPR as it saw fit. Those frameworks are all different in their detail.
E.g. Germany has the BDSG, and the UK has (had?) the DPA.
Re: Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
#16I'm using this to yet again make my semi-annual plea for someone to please make a framework-compatible keyboard with a Thinkpad-style trackpoint. That's the only thing keeping me on Lenovo at this point, decades of ingrained muscle memory. The patent is expired (from 1997 and 1998) and it'd be huge!
Re: Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
This really impressed me. Can you imagine Dell or Apple doing this?
No, but I also can't imagine Apple shipping something that needed a bodge wire soldered in to make it work well. They do a lot more power consumption engineering than most PC companies and they operate on such a large scale that they'd have found out about a battery drain like this much sooner and could fix it in the production process.
The same Apple in which you had be careful which USB C port you used to not overheat?
Re: Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, but I also can't imagine Apple shipping something that needed a bodge wire soldered in to make it work well. They do a lot more power consumption engineering than most PC companies and they operate on such a large scale that they'd have found out about a battery drain like this much sooner and could fix it in the production process.
The same Apple in which you had be careful which USB C port you used to not overheat?
It's the customer's fault for using the wrong USB port obviously /s
Re: Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
#19Still not taking orders from Portugal, Spain, Italy...? :(
I wonder if regulation is partly to blame: "Due to 27 different regulations in the EU alone (and more in other non-EU-countries), the administrative burden for international e-commerce is huge. Other than packaging regulations in many countries, WEEE regulations do typically not have any minimum thresholds or exceptions for SMEs. Therefore, WEEE registration and recycling fees are required in every country (separatel…
>I wonder if regulation is partly to blame:
You mean the regulatory burden that the EU single market was made to fix but yet still exists?
Re: Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards
#20Really impressive that they provide instructions to solder the old cards up towards the new spec. Fully out of my range of talents, but does show they genuinely care about what they preach.
This really impressed me. Can you imagine Dell or Apple doing this?
Apple would have covered the screw up and blamed it on you, telling you it would be a great idea to buy a whole new laptop.
And it they would release a new and fixed version they would announced as if they had created a new form of life.