Id personally love a Carbon Silicon battery in my frameworks 13, frameworks is the perfect company to bring something like that to the market since they’re not forced to build a whole new laptop around it, if they manage to make it fit that’d be amazing. Just wondering if theres maybe any plans to get this to us
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I’m not understanding how this is the case.
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Other companies would have to build a whole new laptop probably with the selling point of the new battery, frameworks could just release it on the marketplace. They would be taking a far smaller risk with a smaller first batch to see how it sells instead of having to commit to it
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Per unit, producing a smaller batch is way more expensive than producing a larger batch. Especially for a new/rare technology.
Yeah definitely and we’d be paying a premium for it but I honestly think I’d be worth it
Sorry, but you’ve got it completely backwards: the only reason phone manufacturers invest in this bleeding-edge tech is to sell their phones. Manufacturing isn’t mature enough for the batteries to be anywhere near profitable alone. This puts Framework in a uniquely poor position to invest in the tech–it wouldn’t drive laptop sales as much as it would in a non-upgradable laptop.
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You wouldn’t be paying “a premium”, it would just not be profitable. Either Framework would purchase a small batch, which they’d have to sell for thousands of dollars a piece to make a profit, but only very few people would purchase them at that price. Or Framework could purchase a huge batch, which they could maybe sell for $100 or so per piece, but that only makes sense if they can sell the whole batch, which they can’t. (There are probably not enough Framework 13 laptops around in total to warrant building a whole new battery manufacturing line for them, with the new technology and stuff. Even if you would replace the battery of every laptop sold to this point.)
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Carbon silicon battery has higher power density but worse durability and may expand more when charged repeatedly. Giving that the current 61Wh battery already have cases of swelling. It’s better to wait for a few years
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There is definitely a good reason that none of the biggest players in the mobile space (Apple/Samsung/Google) haven’t picked this tech up yet.
There has been talks about the durability of these in “longer run”. Still way too early
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