@Banana Good catch!
Pretty sure the screen that’s on is only the panel, doesn’t include the bezel of the laptop. Looks about the same as the current one.
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@Nich_Trimble I thought so too, but the top of that thing is larger than just the panel of the current screen. On the other hand it seems to be missing cameras so, idk.
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If you compare to the screen posted here HDMI controller board for display panel - #15 by nrp and in the market place (and your own bezel if you have a FW) the side and top bezel does look slightly wider to me.
Edit: They look the same when you consider the area without pixels is not very visible with a dark image plus I think it’s a bigger announcement than “we have a new screen” and “oops we leaked it early”
I hope the engineers of the framework read this.
How about preparing the motherboards for a future second life.
Framework could already provide some mounting holes to mount a desktop CPU fan or even a better water cooling for better cooling and a bios option for overclocking.
It would be a cheap mod in terms of production costs, but a great advantage over all other laptop manufacturers.
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Just to note that basically any form of overclocking is impossible due to hardware limitations that intel has placed on their chips! I like the rest of your idea though, would probably be good for this thread instead though; What should we build next? - General Topics - Framework Community
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The string that’s visible, GFW30, relates to the 11th gen board. Also the RAM is DDR4, so if it was that, it would be at best a Barcelo.
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@ParticleCannon I’ll trust you on that, I can’t zoom in enough on my end to keep it legible enough to see, but if that’s what others have found then I’ll trust you on that… and fair enough if that’s the case, I can’t imagine that the team would be foolish enough to leave enough evidence to spoil the event… Although I wonder if they’re doing a drop-in mainboard replacement as part of it??? Hmm…
Looks like a repairable consumer friendly time travel machine to me
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It’s a desk… top…
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24 hours…
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Well done
(not a confirmation of anything, simply applauding the quality Dad joke)
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Thanks, now I don’t need to convert the time to CET 
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This is all very exciting. My best guess is that it’s a printer.
I don’t see them doing a desktop, since desktops are already upgradeable and repairable.
Some thoughts of directions they could go that would be interesting:
- A slightly larger unit with a discrete GPU and high-refresh screen. It wouldn’t have to really be high-end-gaming 4090 class to still take the product line up a notch and make Framework, as a company, interesting to gamers and other people for whom built-in graphics will never really cut it.
- As others have mentioned, 13th Gen or up-to-date Ryzen logic boards as options.
- A phone or tablet. Tablet would be easier in some ways – people have already done this on their own with Framework parts, I believe. A genuinely user-servicable tablet that was actually usable would be very interesting. (Full Disclosure: tablets are the one department where I remain an Apple fanboy).
Printers are, frankly, boring, so I don’t see that as a likely target. I could see them targeting the desktop market with an official offering that follows what many have done building their own enclosures for Framework components, but that wouldn’t really be next-level.
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@Michael_Scot_Shappe Tablet does seem more likely than phone given the size constraints and given the lack of good Android competition. PineTab and PineTab 2 exist but lack the support that paid development can bring (not to demean anyone’s work on the Linux mobile side of things, I think it’s very important work). So a tablet would be next-level in my eyes and would allow FW to get a foot in the door with regards to ARM and RISC development in a lower risk area than their flagship product.
That reminds me of another one I was going to mention: an ARM-based offering in the same form-factor. There are still some limitations in that universe, software-wise, but some people might be willing to make the trade for something that ran a lot cooler and quieter without much sacrifice of speed.
Apple’s leading the way there with the M1/M2 series MacBook Pros. I was skeptical at first, but I had an M1 Max-based MacBook Pro for work for a while, and that thing was a sweeeeeeet mover and stayed ice-cold while doing it.
Going to go for the truly bold prediction, they are building a car. Very repairable and all of course but definitely 100% a car
(edit: this is a joke)
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