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Money4Nothing2000 t1_jdin98h wrote

I'm an electrical engineer, and, just...HAHAHAHAHAA.

There's no freaking way this works. Those solar panels will be destroyed by vibration, and covered in dust and oil, and be worthless in no time. These guys DON'T have some special robust panels that will survive. Also, panels that are flat have like 40% less energy output than tilted panels.

And how the hell are you gonna connect inverters and cables to panels in a LONG STRAIGHT LINE? Like, the most idiotic topology for a solar panel installation.

We have tons of space to put panels THAT ARE NOT RUN OVER BY TRAINS, why don't we put there there?

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6SixTy t1_jdim3ds wrote

Well, for starters, magsafe is patented (making any 'official' copy hard to pull off) but 3rd party Chinese foils of magsafe are out there and I actually agree with the point that the SSD cart is kind of pointless.

*And making a homebrew standard doesn't really fly, especially for a startup like Framework. Thunderbolt already shares the same connector type as USB-C, and exposes traditionally internal PCIe lanes to the outside. Only scenario where Framework can actually make their own standard is if they genuinely reinvent a solution that had previously failed before like their just announced GPU connector that probably just made MXM look completely geriatric and obsolete overnight.

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GoTeamScotch t1_jdikfqs wrote

So the big deal is that you can upgrade the graphics on the laptop, right?

How is this different from laptops in the past with upgradeable graphics exactly? I can see some benefit (different cooling designs over time), but that being said, laptop manufacturers have done upgradeable graphics in the past. My gaming laptop from 2010 had an MXM slot and I upgraded from a 512mb card to a 1gb card...

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bebova t1_jdid83f wrote

I went back to their site last night and I’m totally lit to see an AMD option. I’m not a gamer so a strong integrated GPU is good enough for me and will help with battery life. I almost pre-ordered it last night, but I’m going to wait a bit since they just pushed the delivery schedule back due to a delay from AMD on the new chip. 4nm thick CPU is crazy. My desktop has a R9 5900 and 3060ti. It smokes without hardly a sound. I’m really amped over framework now. Just need to make sure there’s no issue with Linux on the new CPU architecture.

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