But yes, gaming performance hasn't improved, but therein lies my sincere hope for the future of gaming laptops if Framework can figure out a way to get it working. It must be said, there is nothing currently in the works from Framework on that front, but the original idea behind the old MXM laptop graphics module was future upgrades.
Of course there are power and thermal constraints to deal with, especially if you're talking about upgrading from a lower performance chip to a higher spec one. But there is precedent on that front, too. After all, Razer's Blade chassis hasn't changed in three years—using the same cooling for multiple generations of Nvidia graphics silicon—and that's worked out so far.
And, having experienced the easy upgrade process of completely changing the entire compute platform of the Framework laptop, I'm now dreaming of a day when you can buy a new GPU module, as easily as you can buy a desktop graphics card, and drop it into your gaming laptop for moar fps. Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 .
FrameworkPuter And imagine GPU that could be upgraded (separately from the mobo).
FrameworkPuter For once, I agree with you games journo.
FrameworkPuter Hmmm...
Tbh I'm thinking of getting a framework in the future and just replacing my desktop pc with an eGPU for the framework entirely if their upgrade paths keep going
gaming laptop is probably out of the question for a while. the need more people buying the regular laptops before they can even concider doing that.
FrameworkPuter Framework will make a gaming laptop around the time they make an AMD laptop :P
FrameworkPuter Imagine a module that is actually a very tiny gpu!
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SteamOS 3 on would be nice on it.
That's such an up hill battle. They're going to have to make mxm cards mainstream
Aren't they owned by Linus now?
“advice to stop you ham-fistedly yanking out wires with gay abandon”, there’s a line I’d never expect from PCG
The Framework laptop is genuinely amazing
This should been done a long time ago