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Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 15 points 2 months ago (22 children)

The Framework Desktop is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max processor, a Radeon 8060S integrated GPU, and between 32GB and 128GB of soldered-in RAM.

The CPU and GPU are one piece of silicon, and they're soldered to the motherboard. The RAM is also soldered down and not upgradeable once you've bought it, setting it apart from nearly every other board Framework sells.

It'd raise an eyebrow if it was a laptop but it's a freakin' desktop. Fuck you framework.

[–] somenonewho 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Seriously that's really disappointing. It really seems like investors decides that they needed to "diversify" their offering and they need something with AI now ... Framework was on a good path imo but of course a repairable laptop only goes so far since people can repair it and don't need to replace it every 2 years (or maybe just replace the motherboard) so if you want to grow you need to make more products ...

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly this is exactly the product I was waiting for minisforum to make. I think this is actually a pretty solid move.

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Same, I was ready to just buy the first chinese mini pc that had the 128G strix halo processor. This is way better as it will have actual support and likely be better made.

[–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I agree. We need less soldered RAM designs. I thought repairability was something they appreciated.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well tbh they still do have repairable laptops, even new ones and all that, and the "excuse" is that the only way to properly use that specific AMD CPU is with that specific RAM and the non.soldered bus wasn't enough, but still... i'll stick to old #ThinkPads, thank you.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

It's not an excuse. Socketed RAM has been a bottleneck for iGPUs for a while now.

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