The computer’s laptop sales argument was that he wanted to bring part of the modularity and repair of the desktop PC ecosystem to a functional, slim and light laptop. For almost half a decade, the company obtained this promise with several upgrades of the motherboard and other adjustments for the original 13-inch original laptop; With the laptop Framework 16 and the laptop 12, the company tried to bring the same philosophy to laptops of the game / workstation and PC on a budget for students.
One of the announcements of the framework this week concerned the first company’s office of the company. Unsurprisingly, nicknamed the Framework office, it is less aimed at the PC crowd for general use and more on people who want the smallest and most powerful office they can build and pay additional money to obtain it. Pre -orders in this system are starting now and the framework says that it should be delivered in the third quarter of 2025.
Here is my first question: what is a business that tries to build a laptop more office must bring to the office ecosystem, where things are already standardized, upgrades and repairable?
The answer, at least for the framework, announced today: a playing PC that benefits from many PC standards and offers a unique small combination of size and high performance, but which is otherwise substantially less Modular and improving that a mini PC that you can already buy or build for yourself.
Tiny but fast
This mini ITX Board is based on existing PC standards – notes the slit M.2, the ordinary USB -C headlights and the four -track PCIE slit – but is also delivered with a welded processor and a GPU and a non -modest RAM.Frame
The Framework office is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max processor, an integrated GPU Radeon 8060s and between 32 GB and 128 GB of welded RAM. In ARS, we have examined a more thermally constrained version of these chips in the ASUS ROG FLOW Z13 tablet– Despite the fact that being an “integrated” GPU integrated into the same silicon as the CPU, the number of calculation units (up to 40, on the basis of the architecture of 3.5 DNA DNA of AMD), the more the high speed shore of welded RAM gives it similar performance to a dedicated Midrange dedicated laptop GPU.
In the prior case of Framework, the PC starts at $ 1,099, which allows you to Ryzen AI Max 385 (it is a processor with 8 cores and 32 GPU cores) and 32 GB of RAM. A fully loaded configuration of 128 GB with a Ryzen AI Max + 395 configuration (16 processor cores, 40 GPU cores) will cost you $ 1,999. There is also an intermediate construction with the Ryzen Ai Max chip + 395 and 64 GB of RAM for $ 1,599. If you just want the Mini ITX Board to put in a case of your choice, it starts at $ 799.
None of these actors, impulsive purchases, are not a little better than a mini PC focused on the game like the Asus Rog Nuc, which starts at almost $ 1,300 to date And comes with half as much RAM. It is also well assessed compared to what you can withdraw from a mini PC ITX DIY based on integrated graphics – the Ryzen 7 8700g, an AM5 ITX motherboard and 32 GB of DDR5 can all be made for about $ 500 collectively before adding a case, an electrical supply or an SSD, but for considerably slower performance.
