| ▲ | fizzynut 8 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||
Honestly if you actually need high end specs then you should just build a PC. "16 core Zen 5 CPU, 40 core RDNA 3.5 GPU. 64GB of LPDDR5X RAM @ 256 GB/s + stunning OLED" - Easily done as a pc build. In a world where you can get this laptop with Linux, there's a new set of trade-offs - - be prepared for a LOT of things not working because the size of the market for extremely expensive configurations with high end CPU + GPU + RAM + Monitor + Linux is practically zero. - when closing the lid and walking to the coffee shop will the battery be dead before you finish your coffee? probably - will a new GPU/GPU architecture be a headache for the first X years...yes, and if you want to replace every 2 years, I guess you will have a permanent headache. - will updating graphics drivers be a problem? yes - is the text in your "stunning oled" going to be rendered correctly in linux? probably not - will the wifi chip work in linux? maybe - will all the ports work/behave? probably not - will your machine perform worse than a high end PC that cost 1/2 as much from 3 years ago... yes. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | energy123 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Is his build even possible today in a laptop? In a desktop, you would need a top of the line threadripper for that 256GB/s of memory bandwidth. Consumer grade Zen 5 desktops reach only about 80GB/s in real world testing, with a theoretical max of slightly over 100GB/s. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | chungy 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
> - when closing the lid and walking to the coffee shop will the battery be dead before you finish your coffee? probably Why probably? Going to sleep on lid close is common enough, it's even the default in all OSes/DEs. If you turn off sleep-on-close and drain the battery, that's on you. > - is the text in your "stunning oled" going to be rendered correctly in linux? probably not > - will the wifi chip work in linux? maybe > - will all the ports work/behave? probably not These seem like odd things to doubt, when Framework has a perfectly working system for Linux and has been doing it for years. No hardware in their systems is unsupported in Linux. Notably the critique of Framework in the original blog post does not offer these doubts. They are focused instead on the hardware design and tradeoffs between upgradability and uniform bodies. Those are real tradeoffs and Framework cannot solve them all without abandoning the upgradability part. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | wmf 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
I think the point of him making his own laptop is that he would fix all those software problems. | ||||||||||||||||||||