And I don’t see why that is a problem.
If a company is doing good thing and sustaining itself, I don’t see why they will need to be the next dell, hp, or lenovo.
That feels like the toxicity of “endless growth” in the capitalistic view of the world.
Not to mention in most of the place I go to, these are the most popular laptops only behind macbooks. In many situations, they are even more popular than macbooks.
I have never seen a Framework in the wild, however I applaud their approach, but even when taking repair costs in consideration, Frameworks are more expensive than simply upgrading to a newer laptop and using the old laptop for some other purpose. I can’t imagine with the rampocalypse that they easily survive, but I hope they do, I wish other manufacturers would make repair a higher priority.
Umm, not sure if you have seen Framework’s prices.
The current 13in with a weak intel processor is $1850 (and you can’t get it until October). To buy an equivalent Dell? Around $1,000 and you can get it tomorrow.
The upgrade cost for the motherboard (say you want to switch to AMD), will cost you $900. For that $3k you can buy 3 Dells all with ram and storage.
And no, they aren’t positioned well without RAM as their newer ones use LPCAMM2. You don’t have that just lying around.
The current 13in with a weak intel processor is $1850
Is not at all a weak processor. Intel currently makes the best x86 mobile processors on the market. The entire point is that you don’t have to buy a whole new computer when you upgrade. You just get an updated motherboard and slap it into the existing chassis.
The upgrade cost for the motherboard (say you want to switch to AMD), will cost you $900. For that $3k you can buy 3 Dells all with ram and storage.
And all 3 will be outdated when it comes time to upgrade. And they’ll all be shittier than the Framework.
they aren’t positioned well without RAM as their newer ones use LPCAMM2
My anecdotal experience - my Asus gaming laptop died about 6 months ago. with a lot of trouble shooting, I determined it was most likely the mobo. I decided to go with a framework, and was able to bring over my hard drive and ram, saving me like $400.
Getting the framework driver’s was painful. I needed to download them over wifi, but wifi wasn’t working because it needed the driver. okay, download on another computer and install via USB, nope. USB drivers aren’t working either. I ended up spotting my hard drive into my desktop, downloading the drivers that way, and then moving it back to the framework laptop to install.
I’ve literally never had a computer need drivers to make basic USB work in the past probably 20 years. I had a bleeding edge ai 350 framework right even when it came out. Linux was a little flaky with my sound but everything else worked. Same in Windows. Maybe I needed Wi-Fi drivers, don’t recall, but I know USB worked without any. I’m really curious how you needed USB drivers of all things genuinely. I mean you installed the OS presumably from a thumb drive so how would that not work in the same os after installing? Lol.
It may be a separate issue to drivers, because I have this other issue where after waking up from sleep, I have to either reboot or physically remove the USB port and plug it back in to make the USB work. I’ve disabled “allow windows to put this device to sleep” for every single USB titled thing in device manager, so I’m not sure what the issue is. I plan on installing a small linux partition at some point to play around and see if I like it.
If you really moved the hard drive from one laptop to another without reinstalling the OS, that’s probably going to cause issues. It’ll “work” seemingly but it’s gonna be messy like this. You’re going to spend more time hunting weird shit than you would just doing a reinstall imo.
I’d backup what you need to and start over or you’re probably going to keep having strange issues.
If you have a desktop with internet connection, maybe a USB stick would suffice?
There is also USB tethering from a phone that could work.
I am not defending framework. They should try to do better (maybe windows is the bottleneck? not sure).
Just offering solutions to people who might encounter this problem later.
I would like to offer a slightly different perspective: I believe framework is uniquely positioned to survive the ram apocalypse (at least respect to their scale).
In the sense that, framework user can keep purchasing and upgrading components, like battery, screen, speaker, hinge, expansion card, without needing to worry about ram prices, and framework can profit from these component without needing to subsidize ram prices.
That being said, as a smaller company, they certainly don’t have the same amount of bargaining power on ram as most big players, and the launch of LPCAM2 is a bit risky, since that pervents people from purchasing new ram/board/laptops given the current ram prices.
Nope, not on intel core ultra 3 unfortunately (unless you have LPCAMM2 lying around, which is unlikely), that is the risky part I mentioned in the end.
And I don’t see why that is a problem. If a company is doing good thing and sustaining itself, I don’t see why they will need to be the next dell, hp, or lenovo. That feels like the toxicity of “endless growth” in the capitalistic view of the world.
Not to mention in most of the place I go to, these are the most popular laptops only behind macbooks. In many situations, they are even more popular than macbooks.
I have never seen a Framework in the wild, however I applaud their approach, but even when taking repair costs in consideration, Frameworks are more expensive than simply upgrading to a newer laptop and using the old laptop for some other purpose. I can’t imagine with the rampocalypse that they easily survive, but I hope they do, I wish other manufacturers would make repair a higher priority.
They’re absolutely not.
Being that you can and have been able to buy them without RAM or storage, I’d say they’re better-positioned than anyone.
Umm, not sure if you have seen Framework’s prices.
The current 13in with a weak intel processor is $1850 (and you can’t get it until October). To buy an equivalent Dell? Around $1,000 and you can get it tomorrow. The upgrade cost for the motherboard (say you want to switch to AMD), will cost you $900. For that $3k you can buy 3 Dells all with ram and storage.
And no, they aren’t positioned well without RAM as their newer ones use LPCAMM2. You don’t have that just lying around.
Is not at all a weak processor. Intel currently makes the best x86 mobile processors on the market. The entire point is that you don’t have to buy a whole new computer when you upgrade. You just get an updated motherboard and slap it into the existing chassis.
And all 3 will be outdated when it comes time to upgrade. And they’ll all be shittier than the Framework.
That is 1 of 5 computers they sell.
My anecdotal experience - my Asus gaming laptop died about 6 months ago. with a lot of trouble shooting, I determined it was most likely the mobo. I decided to go with a framework, and was able to bring over my hard drive and ram, saving me like $400.
You also likely don’t need to reinstall/resetup everything, which is absolutely painful.
Getting the framework driver’s was painful. I needed to download them over wifi, but wifi wasn’t working because it needed the driver. okay, download on another computer and install via USB, nope. USB drivers aren’t working either. I ended up spotting my hard drive into my desktop, downloading the drivers that way, and then moving it back to the framework laptop to install.
I’ve literally never had a computer need drivers to make basic USB work in the past probably 20 years. I had a bleeding edge ai 350 framework right even when it came out. Linux was a little flaky with my sound but everything else worked. Same in Windows. Maybe I needed Wi-Fi drivers, don’t recall, but I know USB worked without any. I’m really curious how you needed USB drivers of all things genuinely. I mean you installed the OS presumably from a thumb drive so how would that not work in the same os after installing? Lol.
It may be a separate issue to drivers, because I have this other issue where after waking up from sleep, I have to either reboot or physically remove the USB port and plug it back in to make the USB work. I’ve disabled “allow windows to put this device to sleep” for every single USB titled thing in device manager, so I’m not sure what the issue is. I plan on installing a small linux partition at some point to play around and see if I like it.
If you really moved the hard drive from one laptop to another without reinstalling the OS, that’s probably going to cause issues. It’ll “work” seemingly but it’s gonna be messy like this. You’re going to spend more time hunting weird shit than you would just doing a reinstall imo.
I’d backup what you need to and start over or you’re probably going to keep having strange issues.
I took the working hard drive, OS and all, from my previous laptop and slotted into the framework. No OS installation needed.
What the hell do you mean, USB drivers need to be downloaded? Isn’t that standardized and included with the system?
If you have a desktop with internet connection, maybe a USB stick would suffice?
There is also USB tethering from a phone that could work.
I am not defending framework. They should try to do better (maybe windows is the bottleneck? not sure). Just offering solutions to people who might encounter this problem later.
They said the USB ports didn’t work as they didn’t have the drivers.
oh Sorry, bad at reading comprehensions :(
I would like to offer a slightly different perspective: I believe framework is uniquely positioned to survive the ram apocalypse (at least respect to their scale).
In the sense that, framework user can keep purchasing and upgrading components, like battery, screen, speaker, hinge, expansion card, without needing to worry about ram prices, and framework can profit from these component without needing to subsidize ram prices.
That being said, as a smaller company, they certainly don’t have the same amount of bargaining power on ram as most big players, and the launch of LPCAM2 is a bit risky, since that pervents people from purchasing new ram/board/laptops given the current ram prices.
Does a new generation mobo/chip combination generally still support the older generation of RAM?
Nope, not on intel core ultra 3 unfortunately (unless you have LPCAMM2 lying around, which is unlikely), that is the risky part I mentioned in the end.
That’s what I get for only reading 2/3 of your comment before responding.