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465 points susanthenerd | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 15:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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andrewmcwatters ◴[26 Aug 25 15:48 UTC] No.45028193[source]▶
Will Framework ever ship high-end laptops, or is the niche always going to be low-to-mid spec repairable?

The specification targets on them are always chronically low.

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lushy-typeable ◴[26 Aug 25 16:13 UTC] No.45028565[source]▶
It would be nice to see a 5070 Ti, 5080, or even Quadro-grade RTX 5000 ADA for graphics-oriented workloads.

I'm not sure the type-c (200-230w) would be sufficient to run these cards at their reccomended TGP (150w) + CPU (50w) + charge - not that most 16" productivity-oriented notebooks do (70-115W).

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tracker1 ◴[26 Aug 25 18:12 UTC] No.45030197[source]▶
They could run in lower power mode(s)... Given the power/cooling requirements for the module, I'm not sure they'd perform much better than the 5070 option already there. Another comment mentioned the 5070 is configured to run at 100W.
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adgjlsfhk1 ◴[26 Aug 25 21:21 UTC] No.45032483[source]▶
a 5070ti would be a lot better since that gets you up to 12gb VRAM.
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1. tracker1 ◴[27 Aug 25 15:46 UTC] No.45041263[source]▶
Or... NVidia could allow 16gb with a 5070. It's relatively arbitrary anyway, and the power limits are mostly in conjunction with thermal limits in their module design anyway, so it likely makes less relative sense to go up the stack at those limits.