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Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

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Re: Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

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> I'm guessing they don't want to officially support any specific distro https://frame.work/linux > Officially supported > Fedora 37 > Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Perhaps it's not updated yet, but I don't see AMD in that list.

Sorry, I missed where it was specifically about the AMD model. The 13th-gen Intel got added to the list between me posting and you posting, so who knows.

Re: Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

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I'm in the market for a new laptop soon and am considering a Framework one. Would the 13th gen or the AMD version be good enough for basic photo editing? My wife is starting to get interested in photography. It would be nice if this could be a shared machine that I'd use most of the time and she would use for photo editing. If photo editing was something she wanted to do frequently she could always get her own machin…

> Would the 13th gen or the AMD version be good enough for basic photo editing

Pretty much anything from the last decade could handle "basic photo editing" from consumer cameras.

Re: Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

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The customization goes further than just yes/no to the number pad. Looks like a whole "Input Module system" that could open up opportunities for different keyboard designs (DVORAK, various locales, maybe different switches?). I love this idea, excited to see what folks do with it. Makes me think of Apple's Touchbar nonsense -- why force a number pad, or a second touchscreen on folks who don't want one? Such a good it…

Trackpoint with physical mouse buttons... Just let me keep dreaming.

Knowing Framework's community, it's only a matter of time before a trackpoint version with physical mouse buttons and no touchpad becomes available!

I wonder if we'll see a Kickstarter for it soon...

Re: Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

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Came here to say the same thing. Having my old laptop board be a NUC for another screen somewhere seems like a good idea.

Already preordered the 13" AMD board knowing that my old mainboard is going straight into my arcade cabinet as soon as it's out of the laptop.

Did you DIY that arcade cabinet? If so, know of any good guides / did you use one when building it?

Re: Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

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Why even try to use the hardware raid? I can't imagine it actually performs any better than mdraid, and with mdraid the drives are as portable as plain drives. You could destroy the special laptop and stick the drives into usb enclosures and access the array again on any other machine.

Tell me you work in ops with out saying you work in ops. :-) Btw, this is excellent advice. Funny story, I have a FreeNAS device and the motherboard died and I thought "Oh my, I need to bring my ZFS volumes up on another machine, but I didn't have another machine with 6 SATA bays! I ended up having the drives all sitting out on the workbench connected a mainboard with 8 SATA ports so that I could create an archive of…

I bought a drive enclosure that has a hardware RAID built in, and I’ve been pretty paranoid about portability from the moment I configured it.

It’s probably time for me to figure out converting over to software raid.

Thanks for the nudge.

Re: Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

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I’m happy to answer questions that everyone has about what we announced! It may be a little while until I’m able to jump back on though.

I didn't quite get what form the modular upgradeable graphics would take:

* Is this an "egpu connected by a cable" situation, or something actually integrated into the laptop's body?

* What are realistic possibilities for how much gpu, and how much of a premium would it be over other laptop or desktop gpu's? Is this something you would be making, or third parties?

Re: Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

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Tell me you work in ops with out saying you work in ops. :-) Btw, this is excellent advice. Funny story, I have a FreeNAS device and the motherboard died and I thought "Oh my, I need to bring my ZFS volumes up on another machine, but I didn't have another machine with 6 SATA bays! I ended up having the drives all sitting out on the workbench connected a mainboard with 8 SATA ports so that I could create an archive of…

https://github.com/Lillecarl/nixos/blob/master/shitbox/disko... this is my declarative partitioning scheme, I use mdraid, LUKS, LVM and btrfs. I also mirror my bootloader so if one drive dies I can still boot :) Hardware raid is legacy :)

Never used disko, are there any gotchas? Will it format my drivers if I run nix rebuild?

Re: Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

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I've been wishing for something similar, I think it's a great opportunity for desktop-style arm computing to shine.

Already a thing? And is hardware the limiting thing here? Not the terrible arm OSes? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/lenovo-announces-the...

I hadn't heard about the ARM Thinkpad, that's very interesting. For me the reason ARM on the Framework is an exciting possibility is that you can switch out the mainboard with the processor. The X13s is $1,300 which is quite the investment into such an early platform. With a framework laptop, you could have an ARM mainboard, but with the ability to switch it out with an x86-64 mainboard without having to invest in a whole new laptop. It could also go the other way, having a laptop on hand and wanting to dive into ARM, you would just have to buy an ARM mainboard instead of an entire laptop.
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