RISC-V Motherboard For Framework Laptop Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access

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  • ehansin
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    Post is a bit of a tangent, but anyone know how the dispaly and "ergonomics" are on this thing? Not going to get one, just curious.

    Had to do some stuff at work on a Windows-based 10th Gen Core (so not that old) Dell Latitude 5410 laptop. Wow, really starting to realize what junk so many laptops are. My 2017 Air I'm writing this on is so much better from an "ergonomics" perspective. To be fair, have an 8th Gen Core series Dell Precision 5530 laptop with a 4K display running Arch and so much more fun to be working in.

    Looking forward to more quality low-power (ARM possibly, but okay with X86) laptops that I can run Linux in. Windows really starting to become no fun for me, especially on crappy laptops!

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  • Espionage724
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    If I had $300 lying around, I'd give RISC-V a shot! 8GB is plenty for me.

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  • Luke_Wolf
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    Originally posted by varikonniemi View Post
    How long before the first offering comes that is in any way sane for normal use and not only developer tinkering? This is about 3 times too expensive considering what you get.
    5 years

    But more realistically once Qualcomm and friends start rejecting ARM in favour of using RISC-V which may happen sooner rather than later https://www.pcmag.com/news/arm-ramps...licensing-deal I wouldn't expect to see high performance and low cost RISC-V until that happens.

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  • FLHerne
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    Originally posted by ahrs View Post
    Unless you specifically need RISC-V, what's the point?
    That is the point I think, at least for this generation. The original announcement is quite clear about it.

    This Mainboard is extremely compelling, but we want to be clear that in this generation, it is focused primarily on enabling developers, tinkerers, and hobbyists to start testing and creating on RISC-V. The peripheral set and performance aren’t yet competitive [...]

    https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/introd...-deepcomputing

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  • sophisticles
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    $1000 for a quad core system with 8gb ram that's slower than a Raspberry Pi?

    Count me in!

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  • kpedersen
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    Originally posted by varikonniemi View Post
    How long before the first offering comes that is in any way sane for normal use and not only developer tinkering? This is about 3 times too expensive considering what you get.
    Developer tinkering is a good market. They don't need to care about the average mouth-breathing consumer for *all* of their products.

    Plus developers are the ones that are going to get the RISC-V ecosystem brought up. Its too early for the masses.

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  • ahrs
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    Originally posted by varikonniemi View Post
    How long before the first offering comes that is in any way sane for normal use and not only developer tinkering? This is about 3 times too expensive considering what you get.
    At this point why not just build an I/O module of some sort for a Raspberry Pi that fits into a Framework shell?

    Originally posted by Phoronix
    For many workloads the JH7110 is slower than the Raspberry Pi
    Unless you specifically need RISC-V, what's the point?

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  • varikonniemi
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    How long before the first offering comes that is in any way sane for normal use and not only developer tinkering? This is about 3 times too expensive considering what you get.

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  • zexelon
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    For all your retro computing wants, but with a one year warranty and a little bit of battery life!

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  • Quackdoc
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    before anyone comments, no the JH7110 is not a fast cpu, it's slow, like rpi3 levels of perf.

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