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Speculation: ‘Something big’ refers to the FW16.
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FW16 Strix Halo incoming?
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woo, FW16 related hopefully
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If it is for the 16, I do hope there’s a conversation on the bios situation for the 16. In theory I would like to refresh it, but I don’t think I would without some bios love
FW16 feels like a good guess. Strix upgrade seems the most likely, but I’m going to throw out my biggest wishlist item and hope for OLED.
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16 could really use some attention. Lots of things still needed work, lots of other things being built..
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I would hope not to have a board that requires soldered ram. It will be interesting to see what they have cooked up.
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Will this finally be the day we get the Framework Printer?
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13 dots there… could spell (Framework 16”), but just as easily (...13") or (...12") Hmmm…
I’m hoping for pogo pins to connect the 13” keyboard. But I guess this is to do with either the mini PC or 16”. Or there’s a new line of laptops coming.
Just hope Framework doesn’t spread their team too thin.
A week to wildly speculate!
Selfishly hoping for some FW16 upgrade options. Either a new GPU or a strix halo board. Seems like there are plenty of logical obstacles to both, but a person can dream. I’d probably even take the soldered ram of the latter if 64/128 was as affordable as the desktop configs.
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Intentional overanalysis:
There are thirteen diamonds, so it’s an update for the FW13. The email teaser image has 7 diamonds in parenthesis, so it’s the seventh Gen of FW13, possibly an Intel version. I wonder if it’s “big” because they’re launching a 14” version of the chassis.
I hope I’m wrong though. I’d love some FW16 updates.
Edit: fixed misspellings
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There are already seven generations of the Laptop 13.
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*furiously recounting*
Intel 11th gen, Intel 12th Gen, Intel 13th Gen, Intel core ultra, Ryzen 7000, Ryzen AI. I suppose I’m skipping the Chromebook version. What else have I missed?
Risc-V
Why skip it? The missing middle generation is the Chromebook. It was a different mainboard design than the Intel Core 12th Gen despite using the came CPUs.
The RISC-V mainboard is a third-party product; the Chromebook was not.
I think a lot of people don’t like to count the Chromebook because it was sold as a different product. It had it’s own product page and was not advertised as interchangeable with the standard models due to some hardware differences.
As a owner of a FW13 I wouldn’t mind an OLED screen…
But the FW16 needs some love!
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