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Major thumbs-up for AMD chip. With a replaceable main board, this will be a dream. I ordered a framework laptop at its highest CPU+RAM spec and can't wait to replace my 6 years old ThinkPad x250 with it.

EDIT: would also add that the open source design USB-C based side modules are amazing - looking forward to designing my own modules.

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Thanks! We're looking forward to seeing the modules everyone develops, and we're excited to get new mainboards out in the future.

+1 for AMD for me, I'd absolutely buy this today if I could get a 5000 series HS in it too.

Another +1 for AMD from me, only reason I haven't bought one yet was I was hoping to get an AMD chip for my next laptop.

Not sure if this is technically possible. However I would like to see in the future, version with AMD APU but replaceable so you can upgrade as well. Amd seems not selling ryzen mobile that is swappable but maybe possible to design motherboard that will fit ryzen desktop, undervolting it a little when not connected to power to conserve battery - even at the expense of slighty thicker laptop

I'll wait until there is an AMD CPU to buy with this setup.

+1 for seeing AMD chip in it, please go for it!

Why AMD? What about ARM?

I don't want to use an Apple laptop, but I do want a fanless design with M1-type performance and battery life. Can you do that with anything from Intel or AMD?

No and it's probably not possible to get M1 results out of anything remotely modular. The M1's success is largely due to vertical integration. You definitely can't get as good a laptop using a non-Apple ARM chip (see e.g. the Surface X).

The bigger problem is that Qualcomm and Mediatek are so far behind Apple that nobody else makes an ARM chip with M1-type performance and battery life

Any chance for an ortholinear keyboard?

Congratulations! I am really glad to see Framework deliver - I forwared your website to everyone in my contacts list as I was really stoked by what you promised. I certainly hope you can keep up the momentum and consider launching better screens (bigger size, higher PPI, higher resolution) with better processors (AMD). Will definitely be ordering a Framework v2 or v3 (when hopefully you've ironed out all the kinks in v1).

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