This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
and more at people who want the smallest, most powerful desktop they can build
Well, there's this:
Yeah, the screw holes didn't fit, that's why. And the cooler didn't fit the case, obviously. And the original cooler not the CPU's turbo. It's fine, it still runs most games in 3k on the iGPU.
I really hope this won't be too expensive. If it's reasonably affordable i might just get one for my living room.
So... now Framework Corp is selling non-upgradable hardware?
I dunno. Conceptually I want to like Framework. But their pricing means it is basically never worth buying and upgrading versus just buying a new laptop (seriously, run the numbers. You basically save 10 bucks over two generations of shopping at Best Buy). But they also have a system that heavily encourages people to horde spare parts rather than just take it to an e-waste disposal facility/bin.
You get fast memory as a result. If you don't care about the fast memory, there's no good reason to buy this, with their motherboard. There's a use case this serves which can't be served by traditional slotted memory and the alternative is to buy 4-5 NVIDIA 3090/4090/5090. If you want that use case, then this is a pretty good deal.
