Does it potentially support Thunderbolt 5 / USB4v2?

[Adrian_Joachim]

@takaides

FWIW some of Intel’s 14th gen CPUs don’t support TB5 either.

To be fair, desktop thunderbolt support has been pretty spotty forever and desktop 14th gen is barely any different from 13th.

[Philam]

@Jorg_Mertin

Thing is - when these laptops/mainboards are available, there will be one other feature you want to be added. In the end, you wait and will never get a laptop Been there… Stopped doing that.
Started to look at what best options I could get with what is available, and took it.

Sounds exactly reasonable. Thanks for all the info to all. I personally am not going to cancel pre-order, commiting to the FW16 ;). The notebook is too good. And something will happen, either oculink compatibility (please!), or TB5 mainboard down the line.

[Alex_S]

A bit of a late addition to this thread, but I wonder if Framework could upgrade the USB4 firmware over fwupdmgr as well as however Windows users update, so that we can utilize 80GBps USB4v2 speeds when the time comes. Thoughts? @Matt_Hartley

[Kyle_Reis]

I highly doubt it. The Thunderbolt 4/USB4v1 controllers as well as the retimers were never designed for such a speed.

[Steven_T]

Razer released the Razer 18 which is a 14th gen intel, which comes with thunderbolt 5.

[jared_kidd]

14th gen Intel? I give that about 6 months.

[Steven_T]

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