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    Hardware support: [LTT] A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? (Framework Laptop overview by Linus).

    Hardware support: [LTT] A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? (Framework Laptop overview by Linus).


    [LTT] A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? (Framework Laptop overview by Linus).

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 11:47 AM PDT

    Opinion: The Steam Deck Queue Showed How Companies Can Fight Against Hardware Scalpers

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 06:51 AM PDT

    Reuters: "Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025"

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 02:38 PM PDT

    Intel reveals the design of Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Meteor Lake and Granite Rapids CPUs

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 05:39 PM PDT

    Anandtech: "Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?!"

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 02:01 PM PDT

    Framework Laptop 13.5 Review

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 11:29 AM PDT

    Intel introduces its new node naming, Enhanced Superfin is now Intel 7 - VideoCardz.com

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 12:09 PM PDT

    (Anandtech) Intel’s First High-Profile IFS Fab Customer: Qualcomm Jumps on Board For 20A Process

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 07:09 PM PDT

    I have a Framework DIY Edition, AMA

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 01:30 PM PDT

    Here's some pics of it and a timelapse of assembly: https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/orrctp/unboxing_pictures_and_a_timelapse_of_my_sister/

    Why did I buy one:

    Honestly I'm not a huge right to repair fanatic(I watched some Louis Rossman videos and I honestly was kinda bored with his shtick🤣) but I am a big DIY'er; I've been building my own computers for a long time!

    What impressed me the most from when they out of stealth was the level of polish that the whole project had...I could tell from the pictures that they had on their website and their IG that they were not a fly by night operation; they had a real product that they fully intended to bring to production(given the pictures of the ODM factory making the pre production units) and they had the staff(especially with the supply chain skills!) necessary to make that a reality.

    As such, given that my Broadwell Alienware 13 was getting pretty long in the tooth, I was more than willing to their passion and dedication with a preorder especially considering that I was considering replacing it with an XPS 13

    The Preorder experience:

    After seeing a post on their IG that they opened their preorders, and after playing F5 bingo I was able to get a preorder for a DIY i7-1165G7, an AX210 wifi card , 4 USB C , 1 USB A, 1 HDMI 2.0 expansion cards and a power adapter for shipment in "late july". I ordered a WD SN850 500gb, 32gb of DDR4-3200 and a copy of windows separately.

    They kept me updated throughout the wait from May to July with multiple emails and posts on their blog but I have to say I was ecstatic when they posted on their IG in early July that they were doing a production run and that everything was on schedule!

    They sent 2 more emails after that, one to confirm that all the information on file was correct, and one a week later (as they promised!) notifying me that they had charged my card because my order was on the way!

    Around that time I got the charge email they posted an IG story showing the first unit going to a customer, and I got a Fedex shipment nofication!

    Even pre covid, I can't remember the last time a hardware startup was this good at the delivery stage of their product, so I was pretty happy to see everything go so well.

    First impressions:

    There are plenty of other press outlets that have done better photoshoots of the laptop than I did so I will leave you with my impressions: - For benchmarks: My DIY edition is configured pretty similarly to the unit that NotebookCheck got, except I have 2 sticks of the same RAM and the 500GB model of the same SSD - NotebookCheck's comment about the fan getting loud at load is true, and surprised me at first, but at least it doesn't stay at that speed for very long - The box is very nice looking! - There's a webpage with the drivers that W10 21H1 doesn't have in the image, I spent too much time waiting for Snappy Driver Installer to download a bunch of drivers 🤣 - In general I agree with Monica Chin's (the Verge) review; the camera is great(on par with the no name 1080p webcams if not better, but not as good as a Logitech C920), the keyboard is good(although I prefer my Logitech MX Keys in terms of membrane keyboards), there's a similar amount of flex as the more repairable options (I had a EliteBook 830 G7 from work for a couple of months, the 840 is similar ) in the segment but the laptop itself doesn't have any exceptional quantitative qualities and that you're buying it in hope that the company stays around.

    Final thoughts:

    In one sense, the Framework having average specs is a victory as Nirav Patel stated that he wanted the laptop to be modular and repairable without sacrificing on battery life and performance.

    It's refreshing to have preordered a hardware startup's product and it meets their promises for the product and is delivered on time, and while I am hopeful that they'll stay around for the long term, at worst I'll have a very repairable computer that I'll be able to use for a long time!

    (I purchased the unit with my own money, I am not sponsored by the company)

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    AMD Navi 31 with 15360 cores may no longer feature "Compute Units"

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 05:29 AM PDT

    The Telegraph: "Arm faces decline and cuts without $40bn Nvidia deal, watchdogs told"

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 06:41 AM PDT

    Qualcomm/MediaTek Will Beat Apple To Shipping TSMC 3nm Based Smartphone Chips

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 12:28 PM PDT

    Microchip Adaptec 24G SAS Tri-Mode RAID and HBA Launch

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 12:05 PM PDT

    Supermicro SYS-120U-TNR 1U 2P Intel Xeon Ice Lake Server Review

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 12:05 PM PDT

    U.S. News & World Report: "Chipmaker TSMC Says Too Early to Say on Germany Expansion"

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 06:21 AM PDT

    Windows Central: "Images of Microsoft's upcoming 'Surface Duo 2' leak revealing triple camera setup"

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT

    Does Qualcomm / ARM / Phone Manufacturers, use something similar to Intel ME or other backdoors, in their hardware / firmware ?

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 11:23 AM PDT

    Does Qualcomm / ARM / Phone Manufacturers, use something similar to Intel ME or other backdoors, in their hardware / firmware ?
    If yes - that makes privacy & security custom ROM's (like LineageOS / GrapheneOS / Calyx OS) almost pointless in this case.
    Also very suspicious about the future Google SoC in this regard.

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    Hardware partitioning for consumer based systems. Is it time?

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 07:13 AM PDT

    Given how many cores Intel and especially AMD are able to put into one socket. Is it time for hardware partitioning to come to x86-64 commodity systems?

    IBM Power systems were capable of this for years. Where you can take a multi CPU system and "physically" allocate a CPU, memory, disk, etc to one operating system. Intel had it on their now dead Itanium platform. I remember messing around with an Itanium system with both Windows Server and HP-UX installed on the same hardware, running at the same time. No VM's but actual hardware level installs and you basically switched views with a keyboard combo to move between OS instances.

    All the hardware allocation is done in the bios/rom/etc, not in a hypervisor software layer.

    I imagine motherboards with these features would probably be very expensive and I'm not sure if these new CPU's have this function built in or if they need to?

    I would love to have a system that allows me to run windows, linux, etc are hardware levels, not in a VM. Got a 64 core Threadripper? Give 16 cores to Windows, 48 to Linux, etc. Need to run a compile in Linux? go for it, then switch to the Windows instance and play a game while the Linux instance does its' thing.

    I'd really like to see something like this come to market. I know it can be a huge disruptor for the various VM platform providers but the benefits of hardware partitioning can be huge.

    Thoughts?

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    ZOTAC releases RTX 3080 Ti X-Gaming Naraka Bladepoint Edition

    Posted: 26 Jul 2021 09:07 AM PDT

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