09-05-2022, 04:52 PM
(09-01-2022, 07:56 PM)orbital Wrote:(09-01-2022, 01:19 PM)barray Wrote: The ability to swap out the mainboard SBC/module would really be a game changer.
I agree. That is what Framework has done. However they are only providing motherboards Intel 12th gen P series, which run super hot.
People keep asking them to switch to AMD or ARM but they aren't budging.
Perhaps what Pine64 should do is, make a motherboard for the Framework laptop that includes a more reasonable CPU. Maybe the octacore Rockchip RK3588?
This could expand the market for Pine's products.
The Framework laptop design is quite nice, good screen, good keyboard etc.
Upgradability would be good esp. on a device such as the pinebook pro. Even some small "trap-doors" underneath would have made things easier; as it stands sometimes on the pinebook pro if you're installing from scratch it can mean having to open up the computer just to install an OS.
But if not being able to upgrade by changing a motherboard maybe a modular approach with (say) the CPU under a trap door so it could be removed and upgraded. Ditto for RAM as well although I guess this would all just bump up the price.
As for things being slow and with regards to browsers pretty much one reason why browsing can be so slow today is because of the horribly over-bloated websites that exist today. That and those websites bring along multitudes of scripts all of which apparently "need" to run and all doing who knows what. It all slows things down to a crawl.
ljones
