It’s 2023, and those who have Framework’s first generation of laptops, containing Intel’s 11th-generation Core processor) might be itching to upgrade, especially with an AMD model around the corner. Or maybe, like me, they find that system’s middling battery life and tricky-to-tame sleep draining (since improved, but not entirely fixed) make for a laptop that doesn’t feel all that portable. Or they’re just ready for something new.
What can you do with these old internal organs? You can always list them for sale. Or, like me, you could buy a custom-printed Cooler Master case (or 3D-print your own), transfer your laptop’s mainboard, memory, and storage over, and create a desktop that easily fits on top of your actual desk. I can’t recommend it enough as a small weekend project, as a way to get more value out of your purchase, and as a thought experiment in what kind of job you can give to a thin little slab of Framework.
Framework is one of the good ones. For now.
Linus Tech Tips covered this recently. Basically, it’s Windows’ fault, and it sucks. Windows is unreliable. I don’t know why people cling to that thing. We could all transition to something based on Linux in a couple of years with any kind of effort.
The idiotic part, the part that makes Windows unreliable, is that you can COMPLETELY manage this, simply by controlling when you close your laptop, relative to when you unplug it. It’s INSANE that they haven’t fixed this – except that it’s COMPLETELY expected from Microsoft. They don’t care. Windows is unreliable, and they don’t care. And it’s not just this one problem, it’s unreliable in dozens of little and big annoying ways. I think people are just used it it? It’s like some kind of Stokholm syndrome.
Until LInux support all hardware, Windows does.
Nice.
It would be cool to have genuine Framework desktop/SFF.