The original laptop sales stadium in the mobile frame was that it wanted to bring some model and fix the ecosystem of the personal computer on the desktop to a functional, gentle and light laptop. Nearly half a decade ago, the company has made well in this promise with multiple promotions of the motherboard and other adjustments to the original 13 -inch laptop; With the 16th and PC 12, the company tried to bring the same spirit to the work station/workstation LED computers And the budget Computers For students.
One of the Framework ads this week was the first company’s desktop computer. It is called the frame surface of the frame, and it is called less than the GMP for general purposes and more on people who want the smaller and strongest desktop that they can build and will pay additional money to get it. Preparation of this system begins now, and Framework says it must be shipped in the third quarter of 2025.
Here was my first question: What should the company trying to build a laptop similar to an office to bring it to the ecosystem of the desktop, where things are already unified, upgradable and repairable?
The answer, at least for the desktop, the frame that was announced today: a game computer that benefits from many personal computers standards and provides a unique mixture of small size and high performance, but it is largely contrary to that less My standard and upgrade from a small computer you can buy or build on yourself already.
Small but fast
This Mini ITX plate depends on the existing computer standards-referring to the M.2 slot, regular USB-C heads, and the four-laxative PCIE slot-but also comes with the welding and GPU CPU and Non-modern.range
Framework is operated with the AMD Ryzen Ai Max processor and an integrated GPU Radeon 8060, between 32 GB and 128 GB of Welding RAM. In ARS, we reviewed a more thermal restricted version of these chips in Asus Rog Flow Z13 TabletTechnically, as it is a “integrated” graphics processing unit integrated in the same silicone as the CPU, the number of account units (up to 40, based on the RDNA 3.5 brown from AMD) in addition to the high -speed random access, gives it similar performance to fight liver for medium laptop.
In the case of the first party of Framework, the personal computer starts from $ 1099, which gets Ryzen Ai Max 385 (this is the 8 -core CPU, 32 GPU) and 32 GB of RAM. 128 GB will be fully loaded with Ryzen Ai Max+ 395 composition (16 CPU nuclei, 40 GPU) $ 1,999. There is also a building between the Ryzen Ai Max+ 395 and 64 GB of RAM for $ 1,599. If you just want to put the Mini ITX panel if you choose, this starts from $ 799.
None of these is a driving purchases, but they priced them slightly better than a small computer that focuses on games such as ASUS ROG NUC, which is what It starts from about 1300 dollars to this writing It comes with half of the ram. It is also a good price compared to what you can get out of the DIY MinI ITX computer based on integrated graphics – you can get Ryzen 7 8700G, the AM5 ITX panel, and 32 GB of DDR5 approximately for about $ 500 before adding a state or power supply, but to perform a largely slower.
