Framework Laptop 13.5 Ryzen 7 7840U review

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6 points·sva_··6 comments

I'm glad Notebookcheck still exists. Social media has been incredibly hard on all text-based tech reviewers, and they are among the very best.

As for the laptop...

> Price 1500 USD

That price is a bit much. The Asus G14, with a 7940HS and a RTX 4060, is $1400. Its not modular (which is a huge con) and a tiny bit heavier/bigger, but otherwise kinda blows the Framework away.

I've been eyeing the HP EliteBook 845 G10 which is completely modular around 1000-1200 Euro (for academics)

The build quality is on point, from what I've read. The problem is having to deal with HP.

Hmmm, IDK much about euro pricing, other than that the G14s tend to be horrendously priced over there.

Yeah, 2600 Euro for your model here. And it appears to be soldered LPDDR5 memory.

Nice thing about SODIMMs is that you can now even upgrade to 96GB RAM. Maybe more in the future. Thats pretty sweet considering the APU has almost 10 TFLOPS - could possibly load large ml models.

I wonder how the thermals are with the 7940HS and RTX 4060 inside a 14" chassis? It must be getting hot under load/throttle down after a while?

> I wonder how the thermals are with the 7940HS and RTX 4060 inside a 14" chassis? It must be getting hot under load/throttle down after a while?

Quite good. Asus uses liquid metal TIM and packs a comically dense heatsink into the 14" chassis.

SODIMMs have the caveat of being slow and power inefficient (They need 1.35V where desktop ddr5 runs at 1.1V) due to signaling limitations. A new format aims to address this:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21069/modular-lpddr-becomes-a...

The upcoming 16" version will have optional dedicated graphics (AMD 7700?). I'm waiting for that one. I do wish they had an OLED screen option, and TB4.

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