It looks like Framework will be announcing the "second generation" of something, whether that be the 13" or 16" latop chassis (unlikely to be the 16", IMO, as the first generation is quite...
It looks like Framework will be announcing the "second generation" of something, whether that be the 13" or 16" latop chassis (unlikely to be the 16", IMO, as the first generation is quite recent), or a new form-factor entirely. They don't usually make so much fanfare about new chip architectures, so I think it's also unlikely to be that. Whatever it is- I'm intrigued!
There are apparently a number of "clues" on the announcement page- anyone have any ideas?
Edit: Using the inspector, the "emojis" used in the header paragraph are labelled "wave", "color wheel", "yoga", "bolt", "lan party", "gamepad", and "cheetos". I couldn't make out what one or two were supposed to be, and it would make sense that the image names are just generic, but knowing that "lan party" and "gamepad" are used is interesting.
Call me boring, but I'm kinda rather non-expecting. I read it as "Hi, we have been working on something colorful, flexible, powerful, worthy of calling up meeting, hands-on and chill/celebration."...
Call me boring, but I'm kinda rather non-expecting. I read it as "Hi, we have been working on something colorful, flexible, powerful, worthy of calling up meeting, hands-on and chill/celebration."
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in, I want to know what it will be! I'm rooting for them, they seem to be doing the things the way I like!
It's certainly getting there, and I'd love to see a company like Framework contribute to that progress. I'm still watching with interest what comes out of the partnership between Valve and the...
It's certainly getting there, and I'd love to see a company like Framework contribute to that progress. I'm still watching with interest what comes out of the partnership between Valve and the Arch Linux team- especially in the aarch64 package distribution space.
I politely disagree- the former thread from half a week ago discusses the availability of individual parts of a Framework product. This is an upcoming announcement about the future direction of...
I politely disagree- the former thread from half a week ago discusses the availability of individual parts of a Framework product. This is an upcoming announcement about the future direction of the company.
Blog post here. If I was to do some tea leaf reading, the color wheel could be Chrome OS adjacent, yoga could imply a convertible chassis, and the game pad could be a portable form factor?...
If I was to do some tea leaf reading, the color wheel could be Chrome OS adjacent, yoga could imply a convertible chassis, and the game pad could be a portable form factor? Lightning emoji could be speed or battery capacity, or anything really.
Edit: Color wheel could also be an OLED screen? But the little teaser image with the robot has something that looks a little more like a Chrome logo, so that's where I'm thinking.
Lightning could be an upgrade to Thunderbolt 5 as well?
Ohh, I love the idea of a convertible chassis Framework. My favourite form-factor laptop so far has been the Dell XPS 2-in-1 with the 360 degree hinge (not the tablet + keyboard thing, that was.....
Ohh, I love the idea of a convertible chassis Framework. My favourite form-factor laptop so far has been the Dell XPS 2-in-1 with the 360 degree hinge (not the tablet + keyboard thing, that was.. a miss-step).
It looks like Framework will be announcing the "second generation" of something, whether that be the 13" or 16" latop chassis (unlikely to be the 16", IMO, as the first generation is quite recent), or a new form-factor entirely. They don't usually make so much fanfare about new chip architectures, so I think it's also unlikely to be that. Whatever it is- I'm intrigued!
There are apparently a number of "clues" on the announcement page- anyone have any ideas?
Edit: Using the inspector, the "emojis" used in the header paragraph are labelled "wave", "color wheel", "yoga", "bolt", "lan party", "gamepad", and "cheetos". I couldn't make out what one or two were supposed to be, and it would make sense that the image names are just generic, but knowing that "lan party" and "gamepad" are used is interesting.
I'm guessing either a tablet form factor or maybe (complete long shot here) a steamOS deck.
Call me boring, but I'm kinda rather non-expecting. I read it as "Hi, we have been working on something colorful, flexible, powerful, worthy of calling up meeting, hands-on and chill/celebration."
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in, I want to know what it will be! I'm rooting for them, they seem to be doing the things the way I like!
Now that Linux on aarch64 is legit usable, I kinda wish there had been an 💪 in there...
It's certainly getting there, and I'd love to see a company like Framework contribute to that progress. I'm still watching with interest what comes out of the partnership between Valve and the Arch Linux team- especially in the aarch64 package distribution space.
My kingdom for a Steam Deck mini...
I feel like this would be better as a post in the last framework thread instead of a new topic.
I politely disagree- the former thread from half a week ago discusses the availability of individual parts of a Framework product. This is an upcoming announcement about the future direction of the company.
Blog post here.
If I was to do some tea leaf reading, the color wheel could be Chrome OS adjacent, yoga could imply a convertible chassis, and the game pad could be a portable form factor? Lightning emoji could be speed or battery capacity, or anything really.
Edit: Color wheel could also be an OLED screen? But the little teaser image with the robot has something that looks a little more like a Chrome logo, so that's where I'm thinking.
Lightning could be an upgrade to Thunderbolt 5 as well?
Could be. I really hope they update the standard 13" AMD at the same time, though.
Ohh, I love the idea of a convertible chassis Framework. My favourite form-factor laptop so far has been the Dell XPS 2-in-1 with the 360 degree hinge (not the tablet + keyboard thing, that was.. a miss-step).
Fingers crossed for the battery bank they teased at the last event!
Guess I'll put off those thoughts of buying that chassis.
I'm assuming you were looking at that RISC-V board?