Manufacturer forces you to throw away previous device and buy a new one: it's a conspiracy to make money
Manufacturer lets you replace each part separately: it's a conspiracy to make money
Manufacturer lets you replace each part separately: it's a conspiracy to make money
This whole submission is about a user going extra length to recover a perfectly functioning main board (with price between 400 and 800 eur depending on model) after an official update went wrong and was suggested to buy a new one.
Mind that I am planning to buy one as well, so I don't have a bias against it. But those suspicious "features" pulled me away from the 16" model for example.
If I understand correctly, the problem was that the board was the exact opposite of that. The post title uses the phrase “bricked”.
I agree that FWs handling was pretty bad, but then again, what exactly is the proposed ideal-but-realistic solution they should have offered here?
A/B updates automatically recovering the bios is case of failed update, recovery from usb in case that somehow fails as well (InsydeH2O call it "crisis mode" I think). Lenovo support both. Dell too afaik. This is very much realistic to have, and I would expect it from a decent product. A computer without this feature is pretty much designed to fail more easily.
If for some very weird reason framework was unable to offer this, then at very least they could have placed a header on the board with flashing instructions on the website, instead of advising to buy new hardware.
But yes, lack of an USB bios recovery path is a pretty terrible design fault, and I’m surprised that they haven’t improved this by now.
They could have also had the BIOS chip be socketable and sold it individually pre-programmed.
I agree not everyone does this, but its not like some incredibly out there idea.
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility. That's from a 10-year-old MB. Probably a few other examples.