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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.