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by nrp 5y ago
We designed the display interface to be able to support a touchscreen, and we've designed the display to be easy to replace, but we don't have a touchscreen yet!
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by nrp 5y ago
Here's a link to the Framework Laptop DIY Edition, which defaults to no operating system: https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition
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by nrp 5y ago
It's a TI BQ40Z50-R3. I would strongly recommend doing a pack replacement rather than cell replacements for a Framework Laptop Battery. We'll be making replacement battery packs readily available at a price point that hopefully
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by nrp 5y ago
Thanks! We hope you're using them 15 years from now too! We can't say anything about future product plans yet, but our current laptop is not the last product we'll build!
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by nrp 5y ago
It's unlikely we'll add discrete graphics in this form factor, but integrated graphics is actually much better than it has been in the past (e.g. Overwatch and GTA:V can run at 60fps), and there is also support for eGPUs. We'
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by nrp 5y ago
1) We don't have this yet, but it is on our firmware roadmap. 2) Also on our (long term) firmware roadmap! 3) It would be extremely difficult to damage the internal USB-C ports from force on the USB-C Expansion Card. You'd destro
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by nrp 5y ago
Thanks for the report! We'll dig into it.
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by nrp 5y ago
We don't have any plans we can share yet, but we did design the display to be easy to replace by putting it behind a magnet-attach bezel and using fasteners to affix it the lid.
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by nrp 5y ago
We are fans of proving there is a market for this by building and selling it ourselves, but there are categories where the start-up costs for new entrants are impossibly high and the incumbents are actively opposed to repairability. Even f
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by nrp 5y ago
Yep! The better experience for writing and coding with more vertical real estate is why we chose it. It also gave us a better form factor to work with for enabling our Expansion Card system.
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by nrp 5y ago
The USB-C Expansion Card is purely passive passthrough designed to minimize signal loss and voltage drop, so it depends on the capabilities of the specific mainboard. The current mainboard does support 40Gbps through that card. For Thunde
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by nrp 5y ago
We currently have ANSI and ISO layouts for languages, and JIS coming soon. Within this form factor, those are likely what we are limited to.
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by nrp 5y ago
1) We can't announce anything yet, but our current 13.5" Framework Laptop will certainly not be the last product we ever build! 2) See question 1. 3) We've designed the bezel to be color customizable, and there are some photo
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by nrp 5y ago
We haven't tested those internally, but we hope to see folks in the community try them! We are absolutely happy to help anyone who gets stuck, and as we see which distros are popular we can plan out more official support for them.
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by nrp 5y ago
Thanks! We aren't able to announce anything yet, but we have certainly designed for being able to support different CPU platforms, and for folks to switch between them by upgrading just the mainboard or the mainboard+memory.
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by nrp 5y ago
From our manufacturing partners, there was definite skepticism at first, but as we worked together it became immediately clear that what we had proposed was entirely doable! For consumer electronics brands, I think their challenge will be
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by nrp 5y ago
Yes! We can't pre-announce anyone's reviews, but we have sent review units out to a few of the big tech review YouTube channels. The pre-order volume has been roughly in line with our expectations. The one big surprise for us wa
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by nrp 5y ago
Apologies for the miss. There were almost 1000 comments on the last big thread! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26263508 End users have the ability to order replacement parts for every part of the laptop, down to the
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by nrp 5y ago
We'll be posting up step by step installation and use guides for a few popular distros soon. We sent pre-release hardware out to developers and maintainers at a few distros and have been working with them on this. In the meantime, we
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by nrp 5y ago
Thanks! It really is long overdue, and we've seen a ton of enthusiasm from folks who have been waiting for this. It's all the more strange that laptops are so locked down, since desktop PCs are one of the few remaining consumer
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by nrp 5y ago
We've been testing with Ubuntu 21.04 and Fedora 34. We'll be releasing guides around both of these soon and other distros in the future. On Fedora 34 respins that are going live soon, everything works out of the box, including the
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by nrp 5y ago
The lead-in photo on that email happens to be at an angle that doesn't show off the distinguishing features and functionality. On our website you can readily see just how different it is from an Apple product: https://frame
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by nrp 5y ago
We've been testing with Ubuntu 21.04 and Fedora 34. We'll be releasing guides around both of these soon and other distros in the future. On Fedora 34 respins that are going live soon, everything works out of the box, including t
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by nrp 5y ago
Framework Founder here! I am happy to answer any questions on the product.
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by nrp 5y ago
1) Yep, the M.2 SSD, M.2 Wifi, and 2x SO-DIMMs are all off the shelf modules, and you can use standard parts. You can actually order the Framework Laptop DIY Edition with those sockets empty and bring your own. 2) The CPU is soldered, as u
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by nrp 5y ago
Framework Founder here, and happy to answer any questions on the product!
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by nrp 5y ago
The FTC themselves put up a highly readable overview of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act for business that also provides insight on the consumer impact: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/b
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by nrp 5y ago
Framework | Growth Manager, Full Stack Engineer | Full-time | Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, but REMOTE ok | https://frame.work We're building people and planet-friendly consumer electronics products that are designed to
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by nrp 5y ago
You’re getting a ton of great recommendations for novels, but I would recommend also checking out some short story collections. Story stories are maybe the perfect format for science fiction, since it lets brilliant ideas play out rapidly.
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That is largely Apple-specific, as most other OEMs use off the shelf chips. Even in that case though, the distribution doesn’t exist for many components to be available to individuals or repair shops, since the component makers only want t

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