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It's likely that Intel wants industry adoption of the format for laptops and certainly the gushing from HN over the Framework laptop that has a similar swappabl
by ThrowawayR2 4y ago
It's likely that Intel wants industry adoption of the format for laptops and certainly the gushing from HN over the Framework laptop that has a similar swappable mainboard shows that there may be a market for such parts swapping for laptops. But considering the way that Intel abruptly abandoned their Compute Cards that preceded the Compute Element and how the few early adopters were burnt by that, I wonder if we'll see much industry uptake.
- toast0 4y agoAdding on, the number of 'upgradable' platforms with no upgrades ever produced is quite large. Intel should at least make prototype 'upgrades' from previous generarions to show it's feasible. Or at least from a current core series and a current atom series.
- krolden 4y agoI'd rather have a swappable compute module than some USBC adapters that are pretty much a gimmick IMO. They're both Intel so I won't be buying either, but I like to see that the push towards modular laptops seems to be going in a direction. Also whos to say someone won't hack this to use non nuc modules? I'm sure the firmware is locked down but who knows. It would likely be more feasible to hack a new module into it over hoping framework makes new motherboards with the specs you want.
- washadjeffmad 4y agoYeah, pretty much only RISC V or ARM64 would get my attention when Apple Silicon exists. I also say this owning a Threadripper and two Ryzen systems, so I mean for mobile, not HEDT.