NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
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Re: NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
#2This seems to have nothing similar to what Framework laptop offers.
The main (only?) selling point for NovaCustom is open source coreboot firmware and disabling of Intel ME.
I'd like to see Framework laptop with these features, but those two features do not make a Framework alternative.
Re: NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
#3finally a vendor that allows the customization of the super key
and also ships with nvidia gpu
I might have found a new laptop…
Re: NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
#4I don’t mean to minimize the company’s role in their offerings, but are these rebadged Clevo/Tongfang/etc laptops? There’s a place for those but that would make NovaCustom more comparable to system76 or Tuxedo than Framework, which designs their own hardware.
Re: NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
#5finally a vendor that allows the customization of the super key and also ships with nvidia gpu I might have found a new laptop…
Don't Frameworks ship with QMK now, allowing you to customize the entire keyboard at the hardware level?
Re: NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
#6I don’t mean to minimize the company’s role in their offerings, but are these rebadged Clevo/Tongfang/etc laptops? There’s a place for those but that would make NovaCustom more comparable to system76 or Tuxedo than Framework, which designs their own hardware.
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Re: NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
#7Yea I don’t like trying to ride the frame work tailwinds, but wow modern hardware with modern nvidia gpu that supports core boot and heads? The only thing missing is a stellar company reputation that inspires trust
Re: NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
#8This seems to have nothing similar to what Framework laptop offers. The main (only?) selling point for NovaCustom is open source coreboot firmware and disabling of Intel ME. I'd like to see Framework laptop with these features, but those two features do not make a Framework alternative.
I took a poke around their website and it looks like you can purchase a motherboard. It seems this exists somewhere between the mainstream and Framework: a regular laptop with right to repair.
NVIDIA, though? We are still a good few months, or years, away from attempting to seriously use NVIDIA and Linux in the same sentence without looking like a complete idiot.
Re: NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
#9I don't understand... what is the privacy concern with Framework Laptops?
All hardware used is transparent and replacable. Software is the user's choice, and many users go for Linux. It is as transparent as you can make an OS to be.
What am I missing here..?
Re: NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy
#10finally a vendor that allows the customization of the super key and also ships with nvidia gpu I might have found a new laptop…
Don't Frameworks ship with QMK now, allowing you to customize the entire keyboard at the hardware level?
oh yes, they do
but I meant the actual sticker on the keycap (very silly requirement, I know)