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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by nitsky on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:55PM (#27927026)
Are you considering OLED as well? The Dell XPS has that as an option and it is a serious draw, especially for coders who stare at a mostly-black screen all day.
Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by nrp on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:18AM (#27927144)
@pabs3, there is actually a 4:3 13.3" e-ink panel that may be possible to fit, but it would be challenging to interface.

On OLED, nothing we can share yet, but there are certainly benefits to OLED panels.

Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by rraihansaputra on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:23AM (#27928777)
This might be a bit much, but if you offer an e-ink with the same interface as the laptop, it would be very cool to have an external usb-c case for it. So people can choose which display for their "main" monitor, and have the other one as an external portable monitor.
Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by geniium on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:30AM (#27927219)
I would buy one just to get the eink screen on a laptop!
Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by mlboss on Friday July 23, 2021 @02:29AM (#27927830)
+1 for eink. Maybe something to do with collaboration with Dasung.
Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by oreilles on Friday July 23, 2021 @04:40AM (#27928544)
My god, if you can make an e-ink display work it would be an insta-buy for me.
Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by pabs3 on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:14AM (#27927129)
I wonder if eink would be feasible.
Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by robinsoh on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:54AM (#27929302)
> I wonder if eink would be feasible.

It would depend on your meaning. If you mean taking a device like a Dasung or a Onyx and connecting to the laptop and using it as another screen, then sure, that should work fine. If you mean taking out the LCD and popping in a raw eink panel, then no because they have different interfaces. Speaking of which, I don't see any clear specification on frame.work for the LCD connector or power specs.

I see they wrote on their blog.

" We don’t currently have plans for alternate displays, but we’ve designed the display to be easy to replace and the display connector on the mainboard to be able to support a broader range of possible displays. It’s unlikely we would go lower resolution in this form factor, but I agree there could be an interesting case for a display resolution that works at 2x scaling (at the tradeoff of battery life). "

But I couldn't easily find on their website the info for what type of connector and what type of power is delivered to it.

Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping by nrp on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:30AM (#27931071)
We use a relatively common 40-pin I-PEX connector. We’ll be publishing more detail on it as we have time to.