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coolitic It's a bit ironic coming from a dude whose company sells semi-luxury-priced PCs with a niche appeal. Reply
Findecanor Clickbait headline. What he means is that AI is killing personal computing. Reply
ezst036 Findecanor said: Clickbait headline. What he means is that AI is killing personal computing. This. Reply
helper800 coolitic said: It's a bit ironic coming from a dude whose company sells semi-luxury-priced PCs with a niche appeal. "semi-luxury," you are really stretching here. Reply
arrkaye Lord, does this actually make computers or does he just talk smack all day? Reply
hotaru251 “There is a very real scenario in which personal computing as we know it is dead.” This quote does not match your headline title. Clickbait at its worst. Do better. Reply
usertests You only need to pay $100-200 for a decent entry into "personal computing". Plenty of fun games will run on a 10 year old iGPU. We will see the prices of all components decline eventually, unless we get WW3, at which point you won't care. Even that island getting invaded won't kill the PC forever. To address what's actually said in the blog post: That means computers that you can own at the deepest level and do what you want with, whether that is choosing your OS, modifying your hardware, or even just keeping your data and computation local rather than leased from the cloud. This is basically how Nirav is defining personal computing as advanced by Framework. All 3/3 are still achievable by picking up a used device, or even a new laptop in which you can only replace simple components like the SSD. I argue that "less" repairable devices, soldered memory, etc. isn't necessarily a dealbreaker. Framework even offers a Strix Halo desktop/board on which they had to resort to using soldered LPDDR5X like everyone else. Reply
Concerned Liberty usertests said: You only need to pay $100-200 for a decent entry into "personal computing". Plenty of fun games will run on a 10 year old iGPU. We will see the prices of all components decline eventually, unless we get WW3, at which point you won't care. Even that island getting invaded won't kill the PC forever. To address what's actually said in the blog post: This is basically how Nirav is defining personal computing as advanced by Framework. All 3/3 are still achievable by picking up a used device, or even a new laptop in which you can only replace simple components like the SSD. I argue that "less" repairable devices, soldered memory, etc. isn't necessarily a dealbreaker. Framework even offers a Strix Halo desktop/board on which they had to resort to using soldered LPDDR5X like everyone else. So, in essence, what you're saying is consumers should just be happy about only being able to afford entry level or outdated hardware? Reply
Shiznizzle usertests said: You only need to pay $100-200 for a decent entry into "personal computing". Plenty of fun games will run on a 10 year old iGPU. We will see the prices of all components decline eventually, unless we get WW3, at which point you won't care. Even that island getting invaded won't kill the PC forever. To address what's actually said in the blog post: This is basically how Nirav is defining personal computing as advanced by Framework. All 3/3 are still achievable by picking up a used device, or even a new laptop in which you can only replace simple components like the SSD. I argue that "less" repairable devices, soldered memory, etc. isn't necessarily a dealbreaker. Framework even offers a Strix Halo desktop/board on which they had to resort to using soldered LPDDR5X like everyone else. Buy a dirt cheap 1060 6 GB and get the last driver to support the card. I think in the 580 range. I played Tomb Raider Shadows on that card just fine. Limited eye candy of course but the card itself is still capable of play anything offered today. Just have to turn down the eye candy to get the FPS that makes games playable. Suppot for a card that is not even 10 years old dropped already. Nuts. This is as bad as microslop forcing hardware upgrades so they can spy on more people. @1080p this card is more than capable. Reply
cuvtixo Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but won't all those Data Centers be flooding the market when they upgrade or close in favor of new centers with newer components? And that would generally be good for consumers, right? Or will they just burn through those GPUs, etc? I don't fully understand how these data centers use their components, I sure would like to know. It's a bit ironic coming from a dude whose company sells semi-luxury-priced PCs with a niche appeal. That's just trolling. I've upgraded the motherboard on one of my Framework laptops and am looking to upgrade again. It's a first for me, and, I have been looking to that for years! Mid 90s Compaq Armadas 11xx and Conturas 4xx used the same case. That's the only other laptop lineups I know of where laptop motherboard transplant is possible! "Niche appeal" perhaps, but I got my money's worth, for sure. Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/framework-founder-says-that-personal-computing-as-we-know-it-is-dead-vows-to-keep-building-computers-that-you-can-own-at-the-deepest-level#main
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