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Isn't DeepComputing also announced a RISC-V based mainboard for Framework Laptop? See: https://x.com/DeepComputingio/status/1826582426807927121 https://x.com/De

by nirui 2y ago

Isn't DeepComputing also announced a RISC-V based mainboard for Framework Laptop? See: https://x.com/DeepComputingio/status/1826582426807927121 https://x.com/DeepComputingio/status/1826582426807927121. I was hoping this would enable me to get a Framework in China, since DeepComputing is a HongKong based company. Plus, a RISC-V based product-grade project is nice to try out, maybe.

mananaysiempre 2y ago
You probably shouldn’t get the Framework with the RISC-V mainboard as your main machine, as that would be incomparably worse in terms of performance compared to the normal ones. That said, since mid-2023 you can reportedly get Frameworks in Taiwan—perhaps you could arrange for somebody to ferry it to you from there? Or is Chinese customs strict enough that that’d be impractical?
- nirui 2y ago
  At the current stage, no one should be using a RISC-V machine as their main machine. That's why I mentioned Framework, because with Framework, if the investment was a failure, I can just get a X86 board and the rest is not a total lost. However, even through Framework ships to Taiwan, importing product from Taiwan to China is not significantly easier than importing from the US. I still need to handle shipment forwarding and customs etc. Plus, my knowledge is, Framework discourages/bans shipment forwarding. So before I can get the product in an official and legitimate way, I'll just keep waiting. The tablet mentioned in the main article while promising, it just can't interest me as a consumer. For it's starting price at $149, I can buy a secondhand ThinkPad X230t to run Ubuntu 24.04 and it's also a tablet (arguably the best tablet in the entire tablet history in the entire tablet universe so far). Maybe the Chinese government should buy those tablets as work equipment to prevent their employees/personals from playing Microsoft Solitaire during work hours.

by nirui 2y ago

mananaysiempre 2y ago

You probably shouldn’t get the Framework with the RISC-V mainboard as your main machine, as that would be incomparably worse in terms of performance compared to the normal ones. That said, since mid-2023 you can reportedly get Frameworks in Taiwan—perhaps you could arrange for somebody to ferry it to you from there? Or is Chinese customs strict enough that that’d be impractical?

nirui 2y ago
At the current stage, no one should be using a RISC-V machine as their main machine. That's why I mentioned Framework, because with Framework, if the investment was a failure, I can just get a X86 board and the rest is not a total lost. However, even through Framework ships to Taiwan, importing product from Taiwan to China is not significantly easier than importing from the US. I still need to handle shipment forwarding and customs etc. Plus, my knowledge is, Framework discourages/bans shipment forwarding. So before I can get the product in an official and legitimate way, I'll just keep waiting. The tablet mentioned in the main article while promising, it just can't interest me as a consumer. For it's starting price at $149, I can buy a secondhand ThinkPad X230t to run Ubuntu 24.04 and it's also a tablet (arguably the best tablet in the entire tablet history in the entire tablet universe so far). Maybe the Chinese government should buy those tablets as work equipment to prevent their employees/personals from playing Microsoft Solitaire during work hours.