Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partial schematic [video]

Re:Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partia... by iratewizard on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @09:26PM (#31576997)

They're a company truly trying to strike a balance between defending the IP they create and what's best for their community. There's no real winning move here that doesn't open them up to Chinese framework clones on Alibaba in a month

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Re:Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partia... by userbinator on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:56AM (#31578251)

There's no real winning move here that doesn't open them up to Chinese framework clones on Alibaba in a month

Arguably if the Chinese wanted to, they could've already beaten Framework to the market. All the major OEMs/ODMs are in China (or Taiwan, but let's not get political here...) and I'm almost willing to bet Framework just contracted this work out to one of them. Also, those OEMs/ODMs are very much capable of taking the Intel reference design schematics and fitting them into the requested shape. That's basically how things like the Thinkpad X62 happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274644

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Re:Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partia... by rasz on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:02AM (#31579601)

Framework ODM is Compal. This laptop is already manufactured in China.

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Re:Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partia... by OJFord on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @07:04AM (#31580220)

Are BOM & part locations really the key missing pieces that are going to enable that/make it significantly more likely?

Some could already do it, and don't need those; the rest would still be missing schematics, layouts, mechanical drawings, etc. just like a user that wants to know what the unmarked/ambiguously marked chip is in order to try to replace it.

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