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Modular Laptop Maker Provides Mainboard Documentation for Non-Laptop Projects
If you've been following the latest advancements in computing for a while, you already know that there's a big problem with laptops: When they're no longer useful as a daily driver, it can be a struggle to find a good use for all its parts. Everything is proprietary, and serious amounts of reverse engineering are required if you decide to forge ahead. This is where Framework, a laptop company building modular laptops comes in. They've made it clear that when you upgrade your Framework laptop with a new mainboard they want you to be able to continue to use the old mainboard outside of the laptop.
When it's done powering your laptop, use it for a cyberdeck?
To that end, Framework have provided 2D mechanical drawings of their mainboard and 3D printable cases that can of course be modified as needed. "But what about peripherals?" you might ask. Framework has provided pinouts for all of the connectors on the board along with information on which connectors to use to interface with them. No reverse engineering needed!
While it's possible to buy a mainboard now and use it, their stated goal is to help people make use of used mainboards leftover from upgrades down the line. With just a stick of memory and a USB-C power adapter, the board will spring to life and even has i2c and USB immediately available.
What would you do with a powerful Intel i5-1135G7 mainboard? Framework wants to know, and to that end, they are actually giving away 100 mainboards to makers and developers. Mind you this is a program created and ran by Framework -- and is not associated in any way Hackaday or our overlords at Supplyframe.
If you've read this far and still don't know what the Framework laptop is, go check out this introduction by our own [Jenny List].
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Framework | Open Sourcing our Firmware
https://frame.work/blog/open-sourcing-our-firmware
This is the way all hardware companies should work. Like the good software companies. If Framework ever decide to ship with a scandic layout, I'm in 👍
Currently my T43 seems really fucked. The new hard drive and new RAM haven't stopped memtest from showing all kinds of errors. Unless there's something else I can think of to save it I believe my T43 may be dead.
My Librebooted X60 may be on it's last legs. I can still run small programs like Pluma and do a bit of homework, but once I run something bigger, like a web browser, it start getting those weird crashes again that force a reboot.
I like my X60 too much to let it run till it dies, but I'm getting behind on my homework. I think I must actually go about buying a new, current and modern laptop. My desktop works well enough, but it's a frankenstien machine of parts from 2000-2002 and using it for homework, during the school year, is a huge pain, when I can't move it around like I can a laptop.
Everything I own is old. I don't have any machines that aren't 32bit. IDK what's out there in the Gnu-Linux space for laptop hardware right. I've heard great things about the Pine64 machines but they are sold out a lot, the Framework laptop has great reviews and the Star Labs laptops also have good things said about them. But I think I'll be looking for something low-end. As long as it is small, has a CD drive and the hardware is linux compatible then I don't really care. Whatever it is, I'll have to buy it soon, exams are coming.
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