I wonder that Framework Laptop 12 will have Intel Core Ultra 7 165H, AMD Ryzen Ai version?
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Probably not due to thermal limitations. Framework has explicitly stated that this isn’t supposed to be a super powerful computer.
It would be nice to see an AMD version in a few years, if only for a better GPU.
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or use an arm chip, and get rid of the thermal limitations.
they never said it wouldn’t be powerful; they just want it to be affordable
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this could happen.
Yeah, my config for the FW12 is actually much superior to the VivoBook I got 3.5 years ago, while being cheaper. It’s probably minus the Win 11, but isn’t getting Linux an upgrade?
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Would love a snapdragon like those announced in the fnew surface copilot pcs.
Though whether a more powerful chip even matters? Previous gen frontier models can maybe run fine? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GbOzaYU694U&t=42s
As an iPad alternative I wonder how this compares to one of the latest gen models. As for me that is the main use case, something portable.
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I think there is huge potential in ARM board for laptop 12. x86 in this small form factor will never be a powerful device. But ARM on the other hand could achieve better performance and battery life.
I will happily use my upcoming 12" for a few years and hope that in meantime an ARM board is released.
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Maybe whatever nvidia is cooking will suck less than the qualcom ones. Desktop(and laptop) arm (and riscv and whatever else) lives and dies on software which currently is closer to the die than live side.
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This would be awesome
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nvidia arm mainboard in a framework 12 would be ideal
Assuming the nvidia laptop chips actually happen and they don’t suck I guess. (And somehow support lpcamm, sodimms are definitely not gonna happen with nvidia)
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How unlucky, I better return the Framework laptop 12 due this.
Agreed with you with snapdragon chips.
FW 12 with snapdragon x2 elite will be good.
FW 13 with convertible and snapdragon x2 elite cpu will be super great.
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Or maybe a RISC-V board …
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The problems with having an ARM cpus are ,it isnt optimal to run linux on arm cpus (compatibility issues (correct me if im wrong)). And since linux support is a HUGE part of framework, i dont think having an ARM cpu is a viable option( at the time im saying this)
Well, that is a farcical statement if anything is. The number of ARM CPUs running a variant of Linux probably outnumbers the number of active Windows machines in the world. Every cell phone running Android uses an ARM CPU AFAIK and Android is a derivative of Linux …
would be cool if they collaborate with Snapdragon or whoever and create the first fully supported LINUX laptop with an ARM-CPU.