Re:Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review
by dathinab on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:04PM
(#29811613)
IMHO it's a bit troublesome that it ships with a 1165G7, while competition available during the same time (e.g. T14 gen 2) is already on a noticable faster ryzen 5000 (through also stuck at only 16GiB of RAM).
I understand that upgrading the CPU is not yet quit viable at this point in time for framework but still, it noticable lacks behind the competition when it comes to CPU perf for many (all) tasks.
And things will only get harder with the Ryzen 6000 laptop CPUs coming late this year (on the German marked maybe only early next year).
And similar is true for the competition from newer Intel processors.
Edit
This kinda has me stuck, 16GiB of RAM isn't enough, but the additional perf of the newer CPU is well wanted, but then USB ports being non easily repairable on a T14 is a problem to as I somehow tend to brake them. And only 2 USB-C ports on the T14 are a proble, too.
I understand that upgrading the CPU is not yet quit viable at this point in time for framework but still, it noticable lacks behind the competition when it comes to CPU perf for many (all) tasks.
And things will only get harder with the Ryzen 6000 laptop CPUs coming late this year (on the German marked maybe only early next year).
And similar is true for the competition from newer Intel processors.
Edit
This kinda has me stuck, 16GiB of RAM isn't enough, but the additional perf of the newer CPU is well wanted, but then USB ports being non easily repairable on a T14 is a problem to as I somehow tend to brake them. And only 2 USB-C ports on the T14 are a proble, too.