Nice. Framework is super exciting, but I hope they release more cad files for the laptop so third parties can make e.g. keyboards and motherboards. Would be a bummer if their business model is lock-in on everything but the expansion cards.
I’d love to put an underpowered qcom or nxp arm64 chip in and get insane battery life, but that doesn’t seem likely for a while since it needs 4x usb4 :/. Even the Xavier nx SoM only has 1x4 lane pcie..
We started with Expansion Cards because they are they simplest both for us to release a documentation package around and for a third party to develop. We will be expanding out from there though.
Seems to me like you could power some of the ports with a hub/switch if you're willing to restrict which ports accept advanced peripherals. You could even use a PCIe switch to get more Thunderbolt.
I’d love to put an underpowered qcom or nxp arm64 chip in and get insane battery life, but that doesn’t seem likely for a while since it needs 4x usb4 :/. Even the Xavier nx SoM only has 1x4 lane pcie..