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To be fair it starts with 32GB of RAM, which should be enough for most people. I know it's a bit ironic that Framework have a non-upgradeable part, but I can't see myself buying a 128GB machine and hoping to raise it any time in the future.
If you really need an upgradeable machine you wouldn't be buying a mini-PC anyways, seems like they're trying to capture a different market entirely.
My biggest gripe about non replaceable components is the chance that they'll fail. I've had pretty much every component die on me at some point. If it's replaceable it's fine because you just get a new component, but if it isn't you now have an expensive brick.
I will admit that I haven't had anything fail recently like in the past, I have a feeling the capacitor plague of the early 2000s influenced my opinion on replaceable parts.
I also don't fall in the category of people that need soldered components in order to meet their demands, I'm happy with raspberry pis and used business PCs.
You can get an MS-A1 barebones from minisforum right now for like 215 - BYO cpu, ddr5, and m2. But it’s got oculink on the back (the pcie dock is 100, but not mandatory if you’re not going to use it). I think it’s supposed to be on sale for another couple days.
According to the CEO in the LTT video about this thing it was a design choice made by AMD because otherwise they cannot get the ram speed they advertise.
There's camm2, the new standard for high speed removable memory. Asus already has released a motherboard that uses it and it matches the 8000 mts of the Framework which won't be out until 3Q this year.
Framework chose non upgradable because it was easier/cheaper. That's fine except Framework's entire marketing has been built around upgradeable hardware.
Which is fine, but there was no obligation for Framework to use that chip either.
In the same video it's pointed out that this product wouldn't exist at all without the AMD chip. It's literally built around it.
Suppose the counter is that the market is chock full of modular options to build a system without framework.
In the laptop space, it's their unique hook in a market that is otherwise devoid of modularity. In the desktop space, even the mini itx space, framework doesn't really need to be serving that modularity requirement since it is so well served already. It might make it so I'm likely to ignore it completely, but I'm not going to be super bothered when I have so many other options
Yes that's the problem.