The 13 platform seems like the overall choice. The 16 has good long term prospects if you like the form factor, but the options are limited because it’s newer, and the expansion port makes it a little more difficult to work with. The 13 has been around for a long enough time that you can even slap a risc board in it. If you have problems with it after warranty you have plenty of options to get yourself up and running again without having to shell out a lot of money.
The 12 seems promising and interesting (the idea of a non-Microsoft surface-like computer that isn’t landfill bound is very intriguing IMO) but a bit limited. IIRC, it doesn’t even have two RAM slots. It’s likely worth it to let the platform develop a little before buying one.
AMD fucks Intel hard since the birth of Ryzen CPUs, AMD Ryzen CPUs are more power efficient than intel which is ideal for laptops and Ryzen CPUs are a bit cheaper than with intel, also Ryzen iGPUs are more powerful than intel which is bonus
Eh, we all have opinions. I bought two frameworks last year, both AMD, and they’re notably faster and better at basic gaming than the intels I had from a previous generation (2019). The core i7 I had in my Dell also became notably slower as they fixed various issues due to vulnerabilities caused by their bad engineering. As far as I know the equivalent AMD issues were neither as widespread not as severe in nature, and the fixes didn’t stack up performance losses the way they did on Intel chips.
I thought about buying a framework 12 for kicks but it’s Intel only and for that reason I’m oooout.
It’s not a huge issue for me but I would love to upgrade to an AMD mainboard in the future
That’s the reason why I bought a 13 despite coming from multiple touch-screen laptops
The 13 platform seems like the overall choice. The 16 has good long term prospects if you like the form factor, but the options are limited because it’s newer, and the expansion port makes it a little more difficult to work with. The 13 has been around for a long enough time that you can even slap a risc board in it. If you have problems with it after warranty you have plenty of options to get yourself up and running again without having to shell out a lot of money.
The 12 seems promising and interesting (the idea of a non-Microsoft surface-like computer that isn’t landfill bound is very intriguing IMO) but a bit limited. IIRC, it doesn’t even have two RAM slots. It’s likely worth it to let the platform develop a little before buying one.
Intel’s laptop CPUs were never bad tho? Is it just a solidarity thing because of the 13th and 14th gen processors frying themselves?
AMD fucks Intel hard since the birth of Ryzen CPUs, AMD Ryzen CPUs are more power efficient than intel which is ideal for laptops and Ryzen CPUs are a bit cheaper than with intel, also Ryzen iGPUs are more powerful than intel which is bonus
They’re power hungry for about the same performance as AMD. At least the i-series
Buying anything that isn’t an x3D CPU at this point is abject stupidity.
Intel CPUs might as well be worthless piles of sand. Hotter slower and higher battery usage.
As far as laptops are concerned Intel has not a single sku worth the sand it’s made of.
Eh, we all have opinions. I bought two frameworks last year, both AMD, and they’re notably faster and better at basic gaming than the intels I had from a previous generation (2019). The core i7 I had in my Dell also became notably slower as they fixed various issues due to vulnerabilities caused by their bad engineering. As far as I know the equivalent AMD issues were neither as widespread not as severe in nature, and the fixes didn’t stack up performance losses the way they did on Intel chips.