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Nice. Framework is super exciting, but I hope they release more cad files for the laptop so third parties can make e.g. keyboards and motherboards. Would be a b
by rjeli 5y ago
Nice. Framework is super exciting, but I hope they release more cad files for the laptop so third parties can make e.g. keyboards and motherboards. Would be a bummer if their business model is lock-in on everything but the expansion cards.
I’d love to put an underpowered qcom or nxp arm64 chip in and get insane battery life, but that doesn’t seem likely for a while since it needs 4x usb4 :/. Even the Xavier nx SoM only has 1x4 lane pcie..
- lunixbochs 5y agoSeems to me like you could power some of the ports with a hub/switch if you're willing to restrict which ports accept advanced peripherals. You could even use a PCIe switch to get more Thunderbolt.
- buildbot 5y agoYeah the trick would be thunderbolt more than anything, USB-C out to all four ports would be easy enough with a hub?
- rjeli 5y agoyeah, it just feels rude to bifurcate the ecosystem and confuse everyone about the amount of i/o available
- lunixbochs 5y agoI think you could do it in such a way that you only restrict the ports available for alternate mode display output, and everything else still works. I don't think it's rude. It's about choice, just make sure it's clear to the users what sort of peripherals they should expect to work. That said I think it would be almost more fun to put the arm computer into the USB C module.
- nrp 5y agoWe started with Expansion Cards because they are they simplest both for us to release a documentation package around and for a third party to develop. We will be expanding out from there though.