Has Framework exited the Chromebook market, or is a refresh on the horizon? I noticed that their Chromebook is no longer available on the website. With HP recently exiting the high-end Chromebook space, I’m curious if Framework might be doing the same.
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We don’t currently have plans for a newer generation of Framework Laptop 13 Chromebook Edition : Converting a Chromebook Edition to a non-Chromebook Framework Laptop 13
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Will the current / initial Framework Chromebook be restocked?
I wonder if the decline has something to do with Chrome O/S Flex coming out which can run as a thumbdrive/USB boot. However the Flex does not support the Android Play store and maybe no Linux packages (not sure about the latter). I can get Flex to run on some of my Asus laptops but have not been able to get it to run on my FW 16 AMD laptop yet. I’m expecting my FW 13 Intel Ultra to ship soon and will test it on that and report.
I support Chrome O/S on Chromebooks and actually own about five of them (Google, ASUS, Lenovo brands). I can actually get enough Playstore compatible apps installed that I can substitute a Chromebook for my work laptop as far as using the company approved VPN and then RDP to a Windows jump server to do everything else. Can also install M$ Teams and Outlook to handle basic communication w/o remoting to a server if my phone is not handy or too small for bigger messages/e-mails.
I wish Chromebook were more popular and we were not seeing a decline in sales. It is a neat minimalist O/S design that really became more functional once they added Android PlayStore and Linux package support (Chrome browser add-ins just didn’t hack it).
Good luck!
Thanx,
Wio
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