# 2nd Gen Event: Concerning Trend - Quantity over Quality? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Topics\ **Created:** [February 25, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/2nd-gen-event-concerning-trend-quantity-over-quality/65012 "2025-02-25T19:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HardHat\_Media](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/hardhat_media/32/30286_2.png) [@HardHat\_Media](https://community.frame.work/u/HardHat_Media)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/2nd-gen-event-concerning-trend-quantity-over-quality/65012/41 "2025-02-27T16:38:52Z")
I don’t think it was really their fault with LPCAMM not being supported, considering its current max speed is 7533 and framework does not have the infrastructure to develop a RAM fab ---
**Author:** ![GhostLegion](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/ghostlegion/32/3356_2.png) [@GhostLegion](https://community.frame.work/u/GhostLegion)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/2nd-gen-event-concerning-trend-quantity-over-quality/65012/42 "2025-02-28T03:51:57Z")
Turns out the Chromebook FW is discontinued. Didn’t know that On the plus side…Coreboot! So it’s still getting software support externally. And parts availability is likely still good…for now. ---
**Author:** ![tim300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@tim300](https://community.frame.work/u/tim300)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/2nd-gen-event-concerning-trend-quantity-over-quality/65012/43 "2025-02-28T21:17:29Z")
> [@GhostLegion](#): > > Turns out the Chromebook FW is discontinued. Interesting, yeah, I wasn’t aware of that either. I’d love to know how many they sold; perhaps not many if there was little uproar over discontinuing it. When that one was introduced, I _really_ didn’t get it (I thought I wrote something about it back then, but can’t find it now). When most Chromebooks are sold for ~$200, pricing one at 4-5x that is wild. And if anyone was going to spend that much on a laptop, I don’t know why they’d prefer ChromeOS over a full-powered Windows or Linux distro. Anyway, at least it seemed low risk to use most of the existing Framework 13 parts. I share the concerns about now having the Framework 12, 13, 16, and Desktop with a lack of interchangeable parts. I would have much preferred to see just more options for the 13. ---
**Author:** ![Xal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5a626/32.png) [@Xal](https://community.frame.work/u/Xal)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/2nd-gen-event-concerning-trend-quantity-over-quality/65012/44 "2025-03-01T02:39:51Z")
I feel they are being completely honest about trying and having technical limitations. Sometimes this happens. I think that if they grow more, the chip partners will work closer with them and this will lead to even better products, better pricing, more interesting and useful tech. ---
**Author:** ![vriska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/vriska/32/28593_2.png) [@vriska](https://community.frame.work/u/vriska)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/2nd-gen-event-concerning-trend-quantity-over-quality/65012/45 "2025-03-01T04:05:29Z")
If all configurations were available available as Chrome OS variants, I would likely have chosen it for the Coreboot support. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/1X/64c81a89f963ddb07633887baceb642a4b056046.png) [@system](https://community.frame.work/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/2nd-gen-event-concerning-trend-quantity-over-quality/65012/46 "2025-08-28T04:06:09Z")
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