What fixes / enhancements are on your wish list for this year’s FL13 release, whether it’s the hardware or the firmware, or documentation, or hardware certification…etc?
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Touchscreen option.
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A reworked top cover with better attachments for the brass inserts. The input cover I got with my initial FW order still works great, but the plastic around the brass inserts cracked and it no longer can be screwed to the bottom of the laptop chassis.
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ARM chip with power/efficiency to rival that of Apple’s M-series chips
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Haptic touchpad
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- A formal commitment to timely BIOS security patches for X years after launch. You choose X, I just want to know what I’m buying will be supported.
- Thunderbolt 5, ‘cause I’m an eGPU user.
- LPCAMM2, or really just faster and more efficient memory by any means besides soldering it. Because I like playing games + battery life, and because my RAM keeps thermal throttling.
- OLED screen with a good burn-in warranty. Maybe tandem oled? Because I use dark theme everywhere anyway so I think my battery life could survive it, and because I like good contrast ratios.
And then I guess haptic touchpad would be cool, or a speaker upgrade, or a bigger battery again if that’s possible yet.
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Fix the excessive power drain during sleep.
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A screen with less ghosting would be nice…and maybe no rounded corners.
Tandem OLED, LPCAMM2, a focus on improving linux battery life (I dont have any details on this but it really is my biggest pet peeve right now, to be fair my battery is very old)
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Using a GNOME DE (with a black top-bar similar to Fedora’s) helps with not seeing the rounded corners at all. Completely blends in with the empty rounded corner space.
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There is a RISC board out already, have many people been using it or is it just a dev board mostly? Something rivaling Apple’s custom silicon is a pretty tall order.
Even Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft have a hard time selling the Qualcomm RISC processors to the mass market. (Which is too bad, coming from an old SGI user)
LPCAMM2 looks really promising and would be a really innovative approach to their next mainboard.
- LPCAMM2
- Coreboot
- MicroLED
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I think realistically would be better manufacturing quality control. Furthermore, definitely a product with longer battery life and a strong iGPU.
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My Framework 13 is severely missing an RGB keyboard.
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Honestly a better keyboard. I mean all the rest of the progression of course. I don’t use my keyboard much. And at this point I might move away from my frame.work laptop and use a old ibm thinkpad and a desktop. I want to buy framework but the quality of the travel expereince isn’t up to par.
And given that any 5 year old laptop is fine….
I need a better keyboard and probably more battery. I think a more middle tier system would be great. I dont’ wan’t a portable workstation like the 16. I want something that I could work all day with and not feel uncomfortable. I suppose a 16 could get there. But these 14 inch thinkpads with ruggeed feeling keyboards and slightly more space for thermal management just feel more logical. Keep the ultra light 12/13. Maybe a newer cpo and fresh battery would make me happy enough. But I think just a little more concentration on the user exp. I love the company and I love my 13. But my $200 carbon thinkpad is lighter and my $150 14 inch thinkpad is more robust and has a way better keyboard and trackpad exp.
I mean I guess I really want to build a custom shell to put thinkpad keyboard with a framework motherboard….
- Better battery life. When I wake my fedora up from sleep, most of the time it’s dead or near dead. Not sure if it’s a power hungry Wi-Fi module or something else. (Woe is me for having to full shut down)
- (For fun) An ortholinear keyboard option
- (For memes) A LARGE chonker of a body frame. I want to feel like I’m on a laptop in the 80s. If you make a thick frame, we would have so much room for activities.
- More expansion cards that do weird things for makers.
- Bigger, quieter and beefier fan(s)
- Ability to buy just the fan without having to buy the entire heatsink
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