Blue bezel.
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Iām pretty sure that when people say they want an āARM-Powered Mainboardā very few of them actually care about it being ARM.
What they really mean is they want a third CPU vendor option that is viable for day to day usage, competitive with the current CPU options, and has better battery life.
RISC-V is a long way from being viable for day to day usage and also a long way from being competitive with the current options. Intel and AMD are the only vendors of X86 CPUs. So that just leaves ARM based solutions (mainly the Snapdragon X Elite for the time being).
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Iād really like an OLED screen option, as i often use my FW in the dark & the minimum brightness is still quite bright.
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The problem with ARM processors is unfortunately still, that there are no standardized BIOS or UEFI implementations for them. So you often end up with a locked BIOS from the vendor or something similar.
I think this is one of the reasons, that is holding Framework back from developing an ARM mainboard.
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you can use the AMD dashboard to turn down the ā¦ contrast.
The brightness slider donāt work as great.
Yeah I wish the backlight driver has a bit more range.
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One concern I have with OLED panels on laptops is that they may not work as well with matte panels as they may cause bloom or dilute the darker darks compared to a glossy panel. Maybe someone can let me know if this is a completely unfounded concern based entirely on incorrect assumptions, or if this is an actual issue some may encounter (even if its not to the same degree I envision).
I prefer to sit near to a window when at home or at school, and as a result the glare from a normal gloss panel tends to be something that I am more sensitive to. I even held off purchasing a FW 13 until a matte display was available (and until AMD was available, lol)
The ideal panel for me would be a gloss OLED panel utilizing whatever magic technology Samsung has implemented on the S24 series because the reflection reduction on those phones really is something otherworldly.
Seriously. An input-cover kit with a 7-row keyboard would be huge, Iād buy it immediately.
I just bought a FW13 anyway, because most other things about it are what Iām looking for, and I have to put my money where my mouth is even if it means settling for the least-worst option. Iām on my first day of daily-driving it, and the lack of dedicated PgUp/PgDn huuuuuuurts. I hadnāt appreciated how much Ctrl-Shift-Pgup/dn was part of my tab-arranging behavior until I had to figure out mashing Fn at the same time to make it work. Iāll survive, butā¦ why?
But the cool thing is, if a 7-row keyboard comes out, I can just sell my old one on the marketplace, it wonāt be wasted. So itās still better than the alternatives. Nobody else even has the concept of swappable keyboards, so I think Iām in the right place, even if it doesnāt exist yet.
(The other weird keyboard thing that keeps biting me, is the F-keys are stretched rightwards quite a bit. Iām used to F4 being above 4 or slightly left of it, but here F4 is slightly right of it, because Esc is bizarrely wide, and thereās nothing between F12 and Delete, which shifts the whole F-row right. Iāve been hitting Alt-F3 all morning and wondering why my windows donāt closeā¦ So yeah, a more-Thinkpad-esque 7-row keyboard would be big.)
I wish we had PgUp/PgDn too. If youāre on Linux, you could at least setup a shortcut that is easier than reaching the Fn key. [SOLVED] No Page Up/Page Downā½ā½ - #16 by MJ1 It should be possible on windows too. I donāt recall if there is a windows method in that thread as well.
Iād still vote for Trackpoint every time, but if there was something else, I think Iād change the chassis for something a bit more to my liking. I donāt really love the Macbook air aesthetic with the wide bevels on the bottom edge and would prefer something sleek, but a little chunkier like a Macbook Pro, Thinkpad x13, etc. This is mostly because I simply prefer the shape, but if this chassis could fit all the existing components, and also had a little extra room for some special components like extended battery, internal storage or something else along those lines it would be awesome.
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I donāt care too much about a touch screen, but I would really like to have a 360Ā° hinge on the Framework 13. When using external screen, mouse and keyboard you can fold the keyboard away saving quite some desk space for a much nicer setup.
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Haptic Trackpad (FW13)
Currently, the trackpad makes the FW13 feel cheap compared to any current generation MacBook.
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