As said already, this specific chip cannot support socketed memory. And personally, I don’t really think Framework needs to enter the regular desktop hardware market which is already well-served by a thriving ecosystem of multiple hardware vendors collaborating around a well-defined standard (ATX).
The “Framework Desktop”, with this specific choice of hardware, seems to be more of a competitor to the likes of the Mac Studio than to anything that could already be custom-built today anyways. While I think its naming choice might be a bit poor due to it being conflated with that desktop market, I think it’s a natural fit as something fairly laptop-adjacent and thus close to Framework’s existing efforts and strengths.
I think they are very clear from the get go that this desktop cannot have replicable ram. They mentioned that they talked to AMD and even LP-CAMM2 cannot support this chip.
Honestly personally I am fine as long as the ram upgrade price is reasonable and provide significant energy-consumption benefit. I don’t think ram and CPU are components that are prone to failure.
Did framework miss the whole point of why people buy their laptops with this one?
As said already, this specific chip cannot support socketed memory. And personally, I don’t really think Framework needs to enter the regular desktop hardware market which is already well-served by a thriving ecosystem of multiple hardware vendors collaborating around a well-defined standard (ATX).
The “Framework Desktop”, with this specific choice of hardware, seems to be more of a competitor to the likes of the Mac Studio than to anything that could already be custom-built today anyways. While I think its naming choice might be a bit poor due to it being conflated with that desktop market, I think it’s a natural fit as something fairly laptop-adjacent and thus close to Framework’s existing efforts and strengths.
I think they are very clear from the get go that this desktop cannot have replicable ram. They mentioned that they talked to AMD and even LP-CAMM2 cannot support this chip.
Honestly personally I am fine as long as the ram upgrade price is reasonable and provide significant energy-consumption benefit. I don’t think ram and CPU are components that are prone to failure.