Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world

Re:Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world by zerocrates on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:38PM (#30433397)

Keyboards and wifi are one thing (both already modular) but the CPU is integrated into the mainboard and an AMD-based board would presumably need different AMD chipsets and so on beyond simply the CPU itself. That's "modular" in the sense that the chassis is designed for swappable mainboards, but it's much more involved to support.

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Re:Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world by emptysongglass on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:07PM (#30433805)

I remember socketed CPUs being a thing on some ThinkPad models.

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Re:Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world by twblalock on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:08PM (#30433822)

I don't remember any laptop ever that could support both AMD and Intel CPUs. The chipsets are different.

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Re:Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world by robin_reala on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @01:15AM (#30438241)

Mid-90s had both laptops with CPU sockets, and pin-compatible drop-in AMD and Cyrix 486 and Pentium-equivalent chips.

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