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Will order one the day there is an AMD option.
by Queue29 5y ago
Will order one the day there is an AMD option.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoEveryone says that, but realistically, at the size of their company, I can't imagine they have the resources to design, test and support both Intel and AMD designs in parallel at the present. HW development is insanely capital intensive and they're far away from the resources of the likes of Asus and MSI, let alone Lenovo or Dell.
- aunty_helen 5y agoThey recently recieved a fair chunk of funding so are on the growth path. I hope they do release a 15inch AMD based device.
- deadmutex 5y agoAnd then the posts will be "I'll order it once they build a custom ARM soc" :).
- Gigachad 5y agoBy the time they work that out, RISC-V will be the new trend.
- freedomben 5y agoI'll be among the first to buy a RISC-V based framework :-D
- twblalock 5y agoThis is the problem with trying to please power users. There is no monolithic bloc of them. They all want different things. AMD vs Intel? Touchscreens? Strong opinions about screen aspect ratio and resolution, keyboard layout, touchpads, wifi chipset brand, GPU brand, etc.? All there. I wish the company luck, but they are targeting the most picky consumer market there is.
- fbkr 5y agoIsn't this supposed to be a strength of framework? Their machines are pretty modular. Users should get to pick and choose AMD vs Intel, keyboard layouts, wifi chipsets without framework having to design different machines for each configuration.
- mike_d 5y agoYou can only get so modular until you run into the fact that a hybrid Intel/AMD/etc motherboard chipset does not exist. Creating one would cost more money than they have raised.
- zerocrates 5y agoKeyboards and wifi are one thing (both already modular) but the CPU is integrated into the mainboard and an AMD-based board would presumably need different AMD chipsets and so on beyond simply the CPU itself. That's "modular" in the sense that the chassis is designed for swappable mainboards, but it's much more involved to support.
- emptysongglass 5y agoI remember socketed CPUs being a thing on some ThinkPad models.
- twblalock 5y agoI don't remember any laptop ever that could support both AMD and Intel CPUs. The chipsets are different.
- robin_reala 5y agoMid-90s had both laptops with CPU sockets, and pin-compatible drop-in AMD and Cyrix 486 and Pentium-equivalent chips.
- twblalock 5y ago
- rasz 5y agoAMD doesnt bribe^^^award Meet Competition Payments in form of free shit like SSDs for the design wins.