Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.

• kjetil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How come?

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, the RISC-V instruction set is open source, but that doesn’t imply a system architecture standard. So there’s not going to be one. The x86 PC became an industry standard basically by accident, an accident that is unlikely to happen again. Hell, even CP/M, the DOS before DOS had to come in different flavors for different manufacturers because the several manufacturers that supported it didn’t build compatible computers.

    Microsoft has so much inertia on x86 that it’s probably not going anywhere, and RISC-V will become the new ARM, same cores slapped into whatever the hell the company wanted to build that day. With no standard platforms, there will be no modular accessories. What you’ll get are sealed shut devices with no user serviceability, the RAM and storage soldered to the board and the bootloader stored in on-chip ROM.

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    • tekato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      community.milkv.io/t/…/122

      Milk-V Oasis Mini ITX board was going to have replaceable RAM, M.2 slot for SSD, and 4x SATA slots. The only reason it didn’t release was because of Sophgo sanctions (They make the SG2380 which was the Oasis was based on)

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, it’s technologically possible. Is there even an inkling of a plan to go from “dev kit” to “widely available consumer product?” Because basically the only “widely available consumer products” are locked down playpens like iPhones and such. Even a lot of x86 devices are going to the soldered everything approach.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cheaper, better high-speed connections, lack of upgradability.

    a great number of laptops are already doing this. Apple lead the way.

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