To make it easier for @Framework to stay up-to-date with the recent wishes of the community, I plan to keep this list updated with things the community looks forward to have in either the products or the company framework itself.
This list is (for now) in no specific order.
Laptop
Laptop in different sizes (15" and 17" version) (ref, ref2)
I’m not sure I agree with a lot of this list. For example, the dedicated USB C for charging would fly in the face of the modularity and repair-ability. If you mess up or break your dedicated USB C port, how can it be repaired? Framework currently has a system that cost $9 to fix. I doubt it will get much better than that.
I know it is a lot of work, but if you could reference the posts that are asking for these things on this forum in your list, it would be a better representation of the community’s wishes.
Full disclosure: I added UMPC laptop to the list. I’ve said it probably 6 times on this forum alone.
You are missing the Modular Dock → EGPU using the standard expansion cards. I know mentioned it (got a bunch of likes) and others made similar requests later in the thread.
As someone who has read most if not all of the thousands of posts on this forum, you wrote up a very good list, and while I haven’t checked all your references myself, I trust that you did a good job of getting those too! Thanks for your hard work in making this list!
Thank you! I’ve only been on this forum for a few days, but it’s good to know I hit the nail.
I’ve added the last remaining references and added one or two new wishes to the list while I was at it.
I hope this will become helpful for both the community and Framework in the long run.
My idea would be that after receiving input from Framework I could add those statements to the wishes and seperate them by state (or add a simple status to the current list) [open, WiP, no impl, hold].
I have no direct contact to the Framework people but I hope we can get this running as I’m interested in Frameworks long run success and willing to work on it.
@2disbetter@Framework it looks like this forum is set up in a way that I can’t edit posts after one day. Can this be changed? Else it’s quite uselss to make such a list.
@Anachron
For modules:
KVM module so we can use the laptop as a screen+keyboard/touchpad when we are working with headless systems.
For screen:
Maybe a lower resolution screen around 1080p (though might not matter considering Wayland Fractional Scaling may be implemented well by then).
Dedicated USB-C charge port might work, instead of a module, we can have an additional replaceable daughter board similar to the Audio jack.