The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

Love this. I don’t know much about risc-v but I’d love to see it disrupt the market a bit.

This board has the StarFive JH7110 SoC. That processor has previously been in very low power single board computers like StarFive VisionFive 2 (2022) and Milk-V Mars (2023), a Raspberry Pi clone that can be bought for as low as $40. Its storage limitations (SD/eMMC rather than NVMe) show how much this isn't meant for laptop use.

Very underpowered for a laptop too, even when considering this is intended for developers and doesn't need to be remotely performance competitive. Consider that this has just 4 RV64GC cores, the cheapest Intel board options Framework offers are 12 cores (4P+8E), and any modern RISC-V core is far simpler with less area than even an Intel E core. These cores also lack the RISC-V vector instructions extension.

This board also has soldered memory and uses MicroSD cards and eMMC for storage, both of which are limitations of the processor.

Ah, yeah, hard no from me dog. Can we get one of the new Snapdragons tho? Please?

Could someone eli5 risc-v and why the fuss?

Edit: thanks for the replies. Searchingnfurther, this 15 min video is quite well made and told me more than I need to know (for now) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0JFsyX2fU

When the first person opens their new laptop:

"RISC architecture is going to change everything"

Managers at big companies: “No we will not buy any products that have ‘Risc’ in them…if someone gets hacked we’ll take all the blame!”

Now imagine we only had Windows and no one would create such thing because Windows and it's programs does not have support.

Great, I'd be glad if they would consider shipping to more countries as well with localized keyboards

arm first stood for acorn RISC machine

Any information on the GPU they are pairing with it?

Does anyone know if it's possible to use a regular AMD or Nvidia GPU with it?

That's great but they need to fix their hinges first.