A more rigid chassis option. Would love to see an Aluminum 7075 / 7068 / or even 8000 series light weight Aluminums. Currently the chassis does feel too flexible. Maybe add more ribbing/ bracing in the chassis & lid design to reduce torsional flex
Imo also Glossy Touch screen option in MiniLED or OLED.
you could probably get away with an anti moisture coating on the PCB for the mainboard. Like clear nail polish or pcb varnish. It might at minimum make the laptop more resistant to spills and insane humidity.
2-3 sound like something they could accomplish with a new toughbook-esque chassis. Since the mainboards essentially have all the guts for the computer either included or attached to it, it’d be the same principle as the cooler master case. Just bulkier.
IIRC the tablet thing is more of something that could be accomplished by putting a mainboard in a different chassis. There’s people who’ve already turned their Frameworks into tablets like this. So it’d be simpler than some of the other suggestions- All they need is a compatible touchscreen and a chassis design to pack it all into.
The fw13 mainboard would need serious revision to fit two nvme drives. Not saying it’s impossible, but it’d be tricky and require a lot of R&D for a small company.
I think they should look at new ways to use their current parts and ecosystem.
-An external display kit compatible with the fw13 display, possibly with an integrated fw battery so it doesn’t need to draw power from the connected device, and can use HDMI and Display Port expansion cards to connect to devices
-A kit to turn a framework battery into a power bank
-A dock for the framework13/16 that uses the Expansion cards and/or Expansion bay to provide increased IO. Maybe it can connect to the two rear TB4/USB4 ports for extra bandwidth. You could integrate the GPU module into this design as well, or pick an expansion module shell that gives you more NVMe storage. Whatever works.
They’re still a small company, so while a phone or a printer or a fridge would be great, I’m more interested in laptops and laptop accessories that they could make using parts and ideas already in their ecosystem. Then they can shoot for the big stuff.
yeah i think once they release upgrades to things they should have circuit boards to convert them into external things, like the panels (should also have one for the fw16 panel if they ever release a new panel for it), and the battery as you said (though thats one i think they should also sell an enclosure for, for safety reasons). another useful one could be the webcam module, so if someone upgrades their webcam, then they can make it into a usb webcam for another device, or having spare keyboards/numpads/led matrix input modules as usb devices (more focused on the numpads/input modules as thats what people are more likely to have loose)
unrelated i think they could make an expansion bay with expansion card slots (though theyd have to work out some mechanism for ejecting the cards) for the fw16, and i was looking inside and i think it might be possible to fit a 2.5" sata ssd in there, which would be a nice alternative to the dual nvme board if theres enough demand
plus id personally like to see more expansion cards with the form factor of the ethernet one, since i feel like part of the complaints for it stem from it being the only one like that. if there were more like it (like multi-port cards, or a m.2 2230/2242 adapter card) i think more people will be on board
basically just easy ways for people to reuse older parts, and new things to go in the existing ecosystem
The FW16 USB ports currently can output 15W 5V/3A.
The FW16 USB ports currently can input 240W 48V/5A
It would be nice if the USB ports on the FW16 could output 240W also.
Use case: Be able to jump start my car from my FW16! 
In case of emergency, use the FW16 laptop battery to power stuff/tools etc.
Integrate 3G/4G/5G/Satcom antennas so that internet connectivity is still possible without Wifi.
Add a smart card reader, so one can use it for more secure purchasing transactions and MFA (Multi factor authentication).
A modular/repairable headphone/earbud with noise -cancellation? I would love that. (Fairbuds have already shown that it is possible).
i think the usb thing might be a limitation of the usb spec
for 2 and 3 i think there are community projects for those
Adding my $0.02 here.
I’m running a Google Pixel + GrapheneOS. Graphene targets the Google Pixel because of a few reasons:
If Framework made a new phone, I would love to see them partner with GrapheneOS for this. It’s still effectively a de-googled chromium, but I don’t believe that label is a good description of the OS since it is also much more than that.
I’m not a twitter/X user, so glad you asked this on the forum!
I would be unlikely to buy a framework printer because (IMO): Inkjet technology is inherently low performance and reliability compared to laser printing, and there are very good cost/performance/reliability options for laser printers such as Brother.
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IP camera (for surveillance etc.)!
With hardware-accelerated video encoding and preferrably also motion detection or other CV stuff (object recognition? use a GPU for that?).
The current market is horrible. There are super-expensive models and then Chinese crap with no support, no updates, mandatory cloud connection / Android app. / etc.
Another vote for a tablet. 7-9" diagonal, Lineageos, wifi/cellular, etc.
Touch screen display
Make a drop-in replacement that replaces the camera module with a GPS module so I can synchronize my clock and update my lat/lon for wlsunset automatically without internet. Keep the kill-switch so malicious software on my laptop can’t read my GPS location when I go to my secret meetings under the brooklyn bridge.
any future plans for other devices?
imagine something like customizable printer, or headphones - add/remove buttons, mic, change size, foldable version…
or keyboard mouse mobile tablet…
Hey Jan, can you please use the search function? Thanks!
Oh alright, sorry I’ll try
I think there are others as well, but there’s a thread not far down from this one with a lot of folks discussing this topic.
Cheers!
All, and I’ll say it again, ALL of the people that intentionally invented the ways to make things last shorts time, be unrepairable or intentionally wasteful need to be thrown into the 10th circle of hell, made specially for them.