Two years in the past, the final time Framework had an occasion in San Francisco, California, the spotlight was the Framework Laptop 16 — a laptop computer promising the “holy grail” of upgradable graphics playing cards, and simply one of the crucial formidable laptops ever made.
But right now, the Framework Laptop 16 acquired little point out at its new occasion, which centered on the brand new, equally gamer-oriented Framework Desktop as a substitute. While the Desktop and Framework’s authentic 13-inch laptop computer each acquired the newest AMD processors right now, we don’t but know if or when the Framework Laptop 16 may leap ahead too.
The solely point out of Framework’s flagship laptop computer was a brand new “One Key Module” that may experimentally be out there for the Framework neighborhood to construct their very own electromechanical keyboards, ought to they select to, that will be skinny sufficient to slot in the Laptop 16’s extraordinarily skinny Input Module bay. (You can see how the Input Modules work in my video right here.)
I tracked down Framework CEO Nirav Patel on the occasion right now, and he wouldn’t say a lot, however he was clear on one factor: “We’re nowhere close to carried out with Framework Laptop 16.”
I pushed my luck, asking: Is right now the day he can guarantee us that the Laptop 16 will ultimately see at the very least one GPU improve or snap-on secondary battery?
“Today shouldn’t be that day,” he instructed me.
I wish to see Framework succeed, and maybe it’s too early to start to marvel in any other case — it was nonetheless delivery preordered batches of the Laptop 16 to patrons by means of the center of final yr.
Framework has resisted our pushes to this point, stopping in need of confirming it in our 2023 story: right here’s his actual language on the time. It’d be good if Framework might guarantee patrons that the upgrades are completely coming. But personally, there’s quite a lot of issues about that laptop computer I’d like to vary, and I wouldn’t be stunned if Framework was doing a little bit of a rethink even when it does ship.
