Two years ago, the past clip Framework had an arena successful San Francisco, California, the item was the Framework Laptop 16 — a laptop promising the “holy grail” of upgradable graphics cards, and easily 1 of the astir eager laptops ever made.
But today, the Framework Laptop 16 sewage small mention astatine its caller event, which focused connected the new, likewise gamer-oriented Framework Desktop instead. While the Desktop and Framework’s original 13-inch laptop some sewage the latest AMD processors today, we don’t yet cognize if aliases erstwhile the Framework Laptop 16 mightiness leap guardant too.
The only mention of Framework’s flagship laptop was a caller “One Key Module” that will experimentally beryllium disposable for the Framework organization to build their ain electromechanical keyboards, should they take to, that would beryllium bladed capable to fresh successful the Laptop 16’s highly bladed Input Module bay. (You tin spot really the Input Modules activity in my video here.)
While Framework did finally vessel its promised M.2 adapter bay successful December, which will fto you instrumentality other SSDs aliases different peripherals into a Framework Laptop 16 alternatively of a discrete graphics card, my large mobility is: is the promising but somewhat problematic laptop a dormant end, aliases will it get caller mainboards and caller chips successful the future?
I tracked down Framework CEO Nirav Patel astatine the arena today, and he wouldn’t opportunity much, but he was clear connected 1 thing: “We’re obscurity adjacent done pinch Framework Laptop 16.”
I pushed my luck, asking: Is coming the time he tin guarantee america that the Laptop 16 will yet spot astatine slightest 1 GPU upgrade aliases snap-on secondary battery?
“Today is not that day,” he told me.
I want to spot Framework succeed, and possibly it’s excessively early to statesman to wonderment different — it was still shipping preordered batches of the Laptop 16 to buyers done the mediate of past year.
But we’ve pushed the institution beautiful difficult connected the GPU successful the past specifically because it’s a point rivals person tried and grounded astatine earlier — Dell/Alienware moreover sewage sued complete the grounded committedness of the Alienware Area-51m, which ne'er bothered to vessel a 2nd procreation of its supposedly upgradable GPUs.
Framework has resisted our pushes truthful far, stopping short of confirming it successful our 2023 story: here’s his nonstop connection astatine the time. It’d beryllium bully if Framework could guarantee buyers that the upgrades are perfectly coming. But personally, there’s more than a fewer things astir that laptop I’d for illustration to change, and I wouldn’t beryllium amazed if Framework was doing a spot of a rethink moreover if it does deliver.
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