Oh man! So many little things I would have wanted as a new customer here. A higher res screen? Nice! A “super” key? Nice! A full size SD card reader for those two or three devices I still have? Nice!
Unfortunately I finally broke down and bought the microSD reader just a week ago. Haha. Oh well, microSD handles most of my devices anyway. Really only have 1 that actually requires a full size SD card and not just a micro in an adapter.
Any ways to reuse my current display if I upgrade to the new one? Would be cool to be able to buy a control board and 3D print a stand for it so I can have an extra screen
I want HDR, the old resolution was sufficient (VRR and higher brighntess is nice!)
but IPS HDR since OLED/miniLED suck too much battery
LPCAMM2 for Zen 5 CPUs, I hope
Very very niche but
a 5G/WWAN option (or simply an antenna option/port(s) and a slot for the M2 card & SIM)
HDMI (or DisplayPort) input/passthrough: this is an extremely niche thing but could also be useful for capturing input / KVMs do it. The Minisforum V3 tablet also does it
The ThinkBook 13x G4 has a 13.5" 2.8K (2880x1920) IPS 500nits matte 120 Hz display from BOE (the same company that has supplied all Framework panels so far) with rounded corners (and the rounded corners visually match the corners on the new Framework display).
Framework is probably using that exact same panel.
NotebookCheck tested that laptop to have a minimum brightness of 5.6 nits. Source
Any data on the power consumption difference between the available panels? And the power draw on the new panel running at 120hz vs 60hz?
As well as for the new webcam module. It’d be incredible if each part stated power draw levels — would help those of us who care about that as an extra variable in our purchasing equation.
Afaik that has a 13" display with a pixel density of 267 PPI (and your image agrees).
Framework’s new display is 13.5" with 256 PPI. Same as the Lenovo ThinkBook 13x G4 (all other display specs I can find are also identical between Framework’s new display and the ThinkBook).