[HN Gopher] RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now avai...
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RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available
Author : WithinReason
Score : 90 points
Date : 2025-02-05 09:43 UTC (3 days ago)
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| sylware wrote:
| I don't think I can buy this in my country at a reasonable price.
|
| It is very hard to pay online for me as amazon broke interop with
| noscript/basic (x)html browsers a few years ago (and you can pay
| using local wallet codes with using your credit card info
| online).
| mort96 wrote:
| It's not difficult to use Firefox. You just don't want to.
| IshKebab wrote:
| Interesting CPU choice. Seems like it's actually intended for
| image processing...
|
| https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/soc
| picture wrote:
| Consumer image/video processing is one of the few applications
| where requirements of low cost, high performance, and tolerance
| of poor software support and low reliability converge. It makes
| a lot of sense that StarFive would target that application.
| Most of the SoC vendors from China are competing in this same
| space, like Allwinner, Rockchip, Goke, Ingenic, SigmaStar,
| Ambarella, Fullhan, Xiongmai, etc.
| plg wrote:
| Q: why
| geerlingguy wrote:
| In this case, I'm guessing targeting a solid portable hardware
| ecosystem at a development board. The chip on here is slow
| enough it would be a slog for any kind of day to day use... but
| if you're testing drivers for something or evaluating RISC-V
| for some remote use case, a battery powered laptop is a little
| more convenient than toting around a power supply and dev board
| + enclosure.
|
| I'm guessing the sales numbers will be extremely small--some
| people who get excited about RISC-V and would consider buying
| this don't know how slow it is in comparison to even the
| cheapest Arm SBCs right now.
| phendrenad2 wrote:
| It seems to have no practical purpose. I assume someone funded
| it to keep RISC-V in the spotlight.
| kachapopopow wrote:
| because that's why we went to the moon, why not?
| conception wrote:
| We went to the moon because we were losing an arms race and
| the moon got the population onboard with spending 1% of the
| gdp on it.
| brendoelfrendo wrote:
| So the takeaway is that spending funds on an arms race is
| pretty unpopular, but it turns out that people think cool
| shit is cool and worth it?
| ThinkBeat wrote:
| Cool. Now make a mainboard with a POWER 10 (IBM)
|
| and
|
| something like the Altra Max M128
|
| Would probably need to create a "hood", extender between the case
| and they keyboard to fit. and increase the fans a it </s>
| MrDrMcCoy wrote:
| I would legit love to have a POWER10 laptop. No reason it
| couldn't be scaled down to laptop power profiles, though I have
| no idea who would provide a GPU for it.
| cassepipe wrote:
| https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-POWER10-Not-All-Open-FW
|
| Sadly POWER10 is not entirely open and the reasonning behind
| having a power laptop/computer was to have an entirely open
| computer
| kristopolous wrote:
| I was just looking at modern Thinkpad T14 offerings (Gen6). They
| offer ARM snapdragon and AMD. No Intel.
| https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/c/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/
|
| Times are changing
| mrobot wrote:
| They put the old (55WH vs the newer 61WH) battery in the shell --
| Framework you cheapos! I guess they are trying to get rid of the
| old, smaller batteries.
|
| Also, word of warning just don't apply the 3.08 bios update if
| you have a 12th gen. I've had nothing but problems with the 3.08
| bios update without real remediation from framework. Really,
| don't perform this upgrade without doing a thorough review of the
| support forums regarding the issues people are having.
|
| There was a blog post about the BIOS update that i found here on
| this site, but i'm having trouble finding it for reference now.
| Someone had the same issue as i have where sometimes my system
| just won't boot (no video and error sequence) unless i remove or
| re-add a memory module. Not that fun.
| adgjlsfhk1 wrote:
| IMO that's a smart choice. This cpu isn't made to be a daily
| driver. It only is in a laptop chasis to make R&D easier. No
| one will miss the extra 5WH
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