It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I don’t see what’s non-modular about ARM. Most of the stuff that’s user-serviceable on a Framework laptop would be serviceable with ARM:

    • ports are all USB-C
    • drives are NVMe, SATA, or PCIe - Pine64 has boards with each (IIRC)
    • GPU is PCIe - again, Pine64 has that on their RockPro64

    The only difference is RAM, and theoretically they could design a socketable SOC to reuse existing boards (not sure what happened to Project Skybridge). The only difference is RAM, at least for the user, and I really don’t think that’ll be a deal-breaker. Modern x86 chips are already essentially SOCs anyway…