Looking at this I have to place my money on it being a phone… We’ll see 
Exciting stuff.
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Give us a potent Ryzen board already! Instant order guaranteed! 
Honestly, I feel a bit like before Christmas
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So you’re announcing an announcement. Those of us who have to plan, or at least me, am annoyed. If you have an announcement, make it.
What. I can’t say I understand your complaint at all, but you do you I suppose.
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Wishing for a more robust case like Apple’s MBP unibody, 15" would be good, touchscreen and ability to write like Microsoft Surface, and most importantly that FW the company hopefully won’t fold and leave us in the lurch. . .btw is the cpu soldered or is it swappable?
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@Shiroudan I’m with you. I’m quite bullish on it being a new product category and not just an iteration on what is already here. I had a conversation in January and was told that “huge” things were coming down the pipe and that 2023 was going to be “a monster year”. This was in January with an employee who would have knowledge of such things. I don’t mind sharing details since it wasn’t like anything under NDA was related but I’d rather have permission first. This simply must be something more than 13th gen. It can’t be anything less than a new product. New chassis seems possible but does that qualify as “huge”? Does FW think that will stimulate that much growth in the community? I doubt it. Going truly international and hitting every major market would be huge but given the logistical challenges to date, that seems unlikely to me. No, a new product category is the only thing that makes sense to me.
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I want higher resolution display, use self make keyboard.
Every CPU is soldered when it comes to laptops, socketed CPU’s died a decade ago
They just completed Series A funding last year of $18 million USD…they are flush with cash. They aren’t going anywhere.
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That basically confirms it. A 21" laptop!
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The wording of the following tweet:
makes it sound like a printer is in the works (spool is a term used to refer to a jobs waiting in a printer queue).
Maybe
Context made it look like a joke, but a printer would certainly be interesting!
Reading some of the suggestions in the original RFC thread and now here, I don’t think most here are grasping the degree of ambition Framework has in regards to disrupting consumer electronics. Have a listen to various interviews with @nrp. He consistently talks about entering new stable but stagnant markets. Making dongles, or a M/B with AMD chip or some other accessory isn’t something they will be hyping up in the only reveal event in their history. Dongles and accessories will likely come but they will get a small mention on a blog post.
My guess is that they will be announcing one very neglected industry (e.g. printers) or multiple.
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…maybe several predictions (wishes?) will come true? Hope they dont stretch themselves TOO thin, I was running a just-from-marketplace Framework for five months with no battery!
If “spooling” is a keyword I think of filament before ink/laser printers. But looking through Framework’s roster again I notice a couple of people with some VR experience (HTC, Oculus, etc). Could this be the return of OSVR DIY/moddable VR headsets?
In a recent interview, @nrp explicitly talked about wanting to wait until a market settles down. VR is still leaping ahead and to sides so I doubt it.
FW introduced the Chrome version for general consumers last fall. But Chrome devices have lost market share in 2022. People are using their phones more for casual browsing etc.
To test FW, I bought a DIY 12th Gen i7-1280P last year or my daughter–added 32Gb RAM and 1 Tb SSD.
I wanted to see what my daughter’s experience was with her FW before I committed: she likes the battery life and I’m guessing gaming performance–she was supposed to use it for heavy computation for school + work but she tells me she has work computers that do that.
I’m waiting to buy a FW for myself (13th Gen?) but it has to be as good or better than the MBP M2 2022: ability to work with multiple programs open at once. I’m not exclusively mac but I would have to switch out from using FCP and Adobe CS6 to CC subscription on a pc.
It seems like it could be a printer. That would be a tad disappointing to me since I would have absolutely zero need to purchase one. But at least others might need one.
Yep me too! But then again, that’s fine and good because
- One day I will need a new one, preferably with an ADF and
- Other people may actually need a new one
- It’s good to shake up the market with new innovation! No more "Prints 2 pages more with one ink that you buy at $70 that is worth $5.
However, however unlikely, I wouldn’t rule out for 2 products to be announced. It doesn’t mean that both will be available in april, but maybe more like We got X and prepared Y if you're up for it.
I am not really sure how useful all these random guesses are, especially given that we are going to know the answer in one week already! (I’m excited)
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@Anachron Yeah, for me personally, I said screw you to the idea of ink that needs replacing all the time and spent an obscene amount of money on a used color laser printer from Xerox meant for small-business use. Yeah it was expensive but toner doesn’t expire like ink does. At most you pull the toner cartridge out and shake it to break up the toner into powder again. Given how little I print, I’m still on the intro toner that came with the printer like 2-3 years ago. I’ll not need a new printer in a long time unless this one breaks in some new and interesting way (which I don’t expect since it’s built stupidly well). Not something everyone can afford to do though. So I’ll support a new printer that disrupts the industry, it’s just not something that’ll I’ll make use of.
A printer is very unlikely, because this would require drivers for several operating systems. This would need senior software developers. The BIOS development does not show that FW has these capabilities. The new product would be something with a need of less software or with open source software, so they don’t need to develop software parts itself. Keep that in mind.
A new motherboard will be released for sure, since this would prove upgradeability. If they stop releasing new parts for the laptop, the whole concept would fail. They need to bring out new stuff constantly for the laptop and the upcoming new product.
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