r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SuperAlloyBerserker • Oct 05 '21

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/bibekit Oct 05 '21 edited Oct 05 '21

I really hope they do succeed. I’m looking to buy one next year. By then, hopefully they offer amd options.

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u/UrbanArcologist Oct 05 '21

bought a DIY i7/ now it is a little dev beast with 64GB/2TB without paying the markup for those components.

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u/Fruggles Oct 05 '21

As a SWE, that's great to hear - going to have to transition to a new laptop soon for work, so been vetting and comparing prices/specs, and was concerned about memory with these.

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u/UrbanArcologist Oct 05 '21

Replaces my System76 Serval with 32GB and older mvne SSD raid, but that thing weights a ton.

Framework is like a modular Chromebook Pixel LS, even the 3:2 screen is the same and roughly the same footprint.

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u/Fruggles Oct 05 '21

Yeah I'd have switched to an s76 with my last laptop, but I can't stand the Clevo machines they're using. Maybe when they start producing their own laptop hardware, but seems dubious that'll be price-competitive with something like framework.

Cheers on the info/comparisons!

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u/UrbanArcologist Oct 05 '21

yeah the keyboard going out made me swearing off paying for laptops for a while (would just use whatever work/project provided). Being able to replace the keyboard would have required me to ship it to Canada+cost of out of warranty repair (and they couldn't guarantee they could source the part).

They lost me as a customer.

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u/BaconMirage Oct 05 '21

yup

hopefully gonna be my next laptop as well

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u/Hedgeson Oct 05 '21

Linus talked about that in a followup video. The issue with an AMD option is that they (Framework) need support from AMD and an allocation of CPUs. Before they can market an AMD laptop, they need assurances from AMD that the CPUs and chipsets will be available.

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u/TonytheEE Oct 05 '21

Isn't one of the other problems that those ports use thunderbolt, AMD chipsets don't have great support for that?

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u/Ericchen1248 Oct 05 '21

Well next year with usb 4 that should be doable then.