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    The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

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    1680 points etbusch | 12 comments | 19 May 22 12:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source | bottom
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    doyougnu ◴[19 May 22 17:07 UTC] No.31437263[source]▶
    I recently bought a framework laptop for a daily driver when I'm not on my desktop. For context I was running NixOS on an old 2014 macbook air, and I work on the glasgow haskell compiler in my day job so I do a lot of CPU heavy tasks.

    I've got to say, as long as these things are being produced I'll never go back. They are just too good and I cannot recommend them highly enough. One of the things that didn't occur to me before I bought it was that _because_ of the modular design I can switch the side the power port is on. That may not seem like much but it was a revelation the first time I sat on the couch and thought "huh I really wish this was over on that side....wait a minute!".

    I've also had absolutely no problems with NixOS on my machine, even my apple earbuds easily connect via bluetooth, something that I never quite got working on my macbook.

    10/10 This is damn close to my dream laptop and I'm excited a new version is on the way.

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    1. emiller88 ◴[19 May 22 17:51 UTC] No.31437892[source]▶
    FYI, we've added support for the framework to nixos-hardware. I appreciate any feedback or improvements anyone has! https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/framewor...
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    2. fuzzybear3965 ◴[19 May 22 19:06 UTC] No.31438745[source]▶
    Thank you!!!
    3. benevol ◴[20 May 22 06:35 UTC] No.31444051[source]▶
    Will you guys ever produce a "wide screen" version of your laptop? If so, you have another customer.
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    4. sennight ◴[20 May 22 08:39 UTC] No.31444820[source]▶
    Obviously manufacturers haven't been eradicating useful screen ratios for no reason, I've just never seen anyone publicly admit to being the cause. Would you also like to take the blame for glossy screens, chicklet keyboards, and non-replaceable batteries?
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    5. dividedbyzero ◴[20 May 22 11:48 UTC] No.31446063{3}[source]▶
    > Obviously manufacturers haven't been eradicating useful screen ratios for no reason

    For me 16:9/10 is way more "useful" than 3:2/4:3 ever was (had that for ages, wouldn't go back). I love being able to have two different things side-by-side, e.g. an editor and a terminal, on a 13" screen, at a font size I can still read well. I definitely wouldn't buy a square-ish laptop screen.

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    6. rekoil ◴[20 May 22 12:13 UTC] No.31446263{4}[source]▶
    And I'll take anything that's more square than 16:9 personally.

    16:9 is great if I wanna watch movies all day, unfortunately for the apparently unaware laptop industry, I need to also work a little bit sometimes.

    Thankfully Apple never jumped on the stupid 16:9 bandwagon with their laptops. Now if only some monitor manufacturer would wake up and start making 27"+, 16:10, 4K+ monitors with 120hz+ refresh rate then I'll literally instantly buy 5.

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    7. sennight ◴[20 May 22 16:40 UTC] No.31449770{4}[source]▶
    A poor cope for being forced to use a media consumption format. In order to make full use of the ratio ill-suited to productive work, you are compelled to adopt a specific workflow involving two windows being open at all times. Great, that stackoverflow search page can stay open. Do yourself a favor: pivot one of your cursed resolution monitors and open a source file on it in full screen. That is how many text rows you lost in the war on general purpose computing.
    8. GekkePrutser ◴[20 May 22 16:43 UTC] No.31449815{5}[source]▶
    > Apple never jumped on the stupid 16:9 bandwagon with their laptops

    This is not entirely true :) The MacBook Air 11" was 16:9.

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    9. rrrrrrrrrrrryan ◴[20 May 22 19:23 UTC] No.31451491[source]▶
    Widescreen laptops were a phase, but they're rapidly falling out of fashion.

    Being able to see more text (webpages, news articles), and longer lists (email inbox, code) is more important to more people than having a laptop that can watch movies. Split-screening on a laptop is rough no matter the dimensions. In the best case scenario you have a wide laptop and you see two panes, but a miniscule amount of rows on each pane.

    Squarish laptops have been a breath of fresh air for me.

    10. johnwalkr ◴[21 May 22 09:59 UTC] No.31456610{3}[source]▶
    I actually hate that I don’t have many options for glossy screens for the desktop, who can I blame for that?
    11. fui ◴[22 May 22 04:54 UTC] No.31464986[source]▶
    Thank you for doing this! I've been following different posts on NixOS and how different folks have managed to get things working on NixOS.
    12. rekoil ◴[22 May 22 13:28 UTC] No.31467959{6}[source]▶
    Fair enough, and that may not be the only machine for all I know, but what I meant was that in general Apple tends to go for 16:10 which I love.