New here, came because I am interested in buying a framework 13 for my personal use.
It’ll be my “take with me on trips and on vacation” laptop and will see a little bit of everything.
Mainly browsing and media consumption (music and video) but also gaming.
Very interested in it being light for carrying around.
Would be nice if I could game well in non-competitive titles with lowered settings.
I also like playing emulated systems up to PSP & Saturn so there’s that as well.
Wanted to treat myself a little so am willing to go a bit above the “value-for-money” model but not into “ludicrous rise in price for little performance/battery efficiency gains” territory.
I don’t mind going either Intel or AMD if they’re the more compelling option
What is the word right now on the new Ryzen AI chips?
The Ryzen AI 300 you can preorder now look pretty good. They’re not much faster than the previous AMD 7040 models you can get discounted, but they should have a longer battery life and Framework will ship them with upgraded components like keyboards.
The main feature of the Intel models is that they support Thunderbolt 4, but if you don’t need that the AMD ones are probably better, especially for light gaming.
Since the first reviews of the new Ryzen AI 300 Frameworks are out, unfortunately the battery life seems very poor so far. I wonder how/if they will address this. To my understanding there is no official statement on that yet.
Seeing how the 7-series is better in terms of price-to-performance, what else does this new release bring to the table after all? (other than the new K/B)
Per dollar, the only improvement in the 300 series over the 7000 seriese right now seems to be AI performance if you have software that can use the NPU. For everything else 7000 series is a better value.
As is usually the case with electronics, you get the best value when you buy the cheapest thing that meets your immediate requirements performance-wise.