A prebuilt laptop constructed by a major OEM would have the advantage of engineering optimization done in-house by leveraging strong technical relationships with their supply chain partners. They could carefully balance the appropriate hardware components to optimize for power draw. In the end, a prebuilt system will have everything locked down within a few variations of options, and the end user will basically only have the option to swap out the hard drive and RAM, that’s assuming these things are not pre-soldered to the mainboard. I think the engineering complexity for Framework is much higher because their key product feature is the capability to provide users with freedom of modularity. In that sense I think the sacrifice to power efficiency is something we have to live with for the time being. But it’s exciting in a way that I am very interested in seeing what tricks both the FW engineers and FW community can come up with to optimize these things down the road.
A prebuilt laptop constructed by a major OEM would have the advantage of engineering optimization done in-house by leveraging strong technical relationships with their supply chain partners. They could carefully balance the appropriate hardware components to optimize for power draw. In the end, a prebuilt system will have everything locked down within a few variations of options, and the end user will basically only have the option to swap out the hard drive and RAM, that’s assuming these things are not pre-soldered to the mainboard. I think the engineering complexity for Framework is much higher because their key product feature is the capability to provide users with freedom of modularity. In that sense I think the sacrifice to power efficiency is something we have to live with for the time being. But it’s exciting in a way that I am very interested in seeing what tricks both the FW engineers and FW community can come up with to optimize these things down the road.