These things are awesome.
My dream is:
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One embedded onto an ITX board.
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An SKU with a single (8 core (ideally X3D?)) CCD but the full GPU.
Framework Desktop contains an ITX board with a Strix Halo. It’s not cheap though, unless you compare it to an equivalent Mac Mini.
Eh, yeah, and it’s backordered.
Ideally I’d like a full x16 slot too (or at least electrical x8), but perhaps that’s asking too much.
Also, is it even standard ITX?
It’s not released yet. And yeah, it’s standard ITX, Framework adheres to standards as much as possible.
No!
I have a framework, and it’s fine (upgradability is nice), but the desktop has fixed dram (guessing they’re mated to the cpu for more bandwidth) but no thank you
My favorite thing about these is that even though minipc’s with them are around $2000 now, someday they’ll be cheap and the Switch 2 is coming out and will probably be a ~10 year platform. Someday it’ll be a solid choice as a cheap entry into PC gaming
The Framework one starts at ~$1100 but I’d argue it’s still a bad value, aside from being unrepairable and unupgradeable.
Yeah, any framework with a “big” GPU is just so expensive.
Well this one is not as expensive, relative to the competition. But their laptops are at least repairable and upgradable.
That’s where I think this will really shine. I agree that I wouldn’t get this to only play video games on, but they seem a LOT cheaper than the Mac Studios/Minis that are used for portable, heavy-duty compute.
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30% better overall … Holy!!
The graphs are confusing, same color, but they switch to whatever is better being at the top
