Framework sells its modular laptop motherboard a la carte to fulfill DIY desktop and cyberdeck dreams — and now, it’s selling off extra stock of these 11th Gen Intel Core models at deep discount.
You’ll also need storage, memory, and possibly ports (it’s only got four USB-C by itself). There’s also this neat transparent $39 Cooler Master case if you want to DIY an unofficial Intel NUC.
HP is bringing a much welcome refresh to its Pavilion Plus line. The Pavilion Plus is a totally random assortment of features (OLED display, ultra-thin chassis, incredibly fancy webcam, an H-series processor) that really have no business being on the same device, and it is my favorite thing ever. (It’s also on our Best Budget Laptop list.)
There will be a 14-inch 2.8K model with both AMD and Intel options as well as a 16-inch 2.5K option with an Intel Core i7 and Nvidia RTX 3050. The former’s hitting shelves in September starting at $849.99; we’ll see the latter in October for $999.99.
If you’ve been trying to decide between buying a luxury car and a fancy gaming laptop, well, you can now get them both in one.
A few months ago, MSI announced the Stealth 16 Mercedes-AMG Motorsport, an RGB gaming laptop covered in both RGB and the AMG logo. This massive, very flashy computer is now up for order on MSI’s website. $2,899.99 gets you a Core i9, an OLED screen, 64GB of memory, and 2TB of storage. And a cool luxury car vibe, I assume.
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“You should be able to decapitate your MacBook and use it as a desktop,” the Mac hardware tinkerer said while taking the broken screen off of a laptop, leaving just the slab. One fantastic, e-waste-saving use case he added was pairing a broken iMac he had converted into a monitor with his headless MacBook.
If you are also slabtop curious, check out my experience decapitating my own M1 MacBook Air from last year.
The Laptop 16 promises to finally fulfill the broken dream of upgradable gaming laptops. How easy can it be? See for yourself — I don’t cut away once during this video!
The bigger question: will Framework secure future GPUs to swap into this PC? It’s got a solid track record with CPUs...
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It’s now been just over two years since I reviewed the original Framework Laptop. Back then, I wondered if its promise of a wide ecosystem and robust marketplace would really hold up, or whether the Framework, like so many modular PCs before it, would quickly fizzle out.
As of today, it’s available in 12 countries. So far, so good. Taiwan is also on the way “later this summer”.
In our big hands-on with the modular gaming laptop, the laptop’s swappable GPU throttled itself due to a broken fan connector. But today, I visited Framework HQ and spent 15 minutes in Cyberpunk 2077 and Halo Infinite on high spec with no throttling at all. And yes, I swapped that GPU in and out of the laptop myself.
Framework says it still needs to add fan curves: they ran full bore during my demo.
I’ve been dreaming of something like this since my own first gaming laptop — which was old enough to largely predate “gaming laptops” and old enough to have twin removable batteries. This one starts at $1399 DIY or $1699 prebuilt — plus $400 extra for a discrete modular AMD GPU — and ships Q4.
More in our exclusive hands-on:
We upgraded a laptop GPU with a snap — and six screws.
Digital Trends got a preview of Lenovo’s Aurora design that comes apart without the use of so much as a screwdriver. The company is the latest to look towards sustainable notebook designs following the successful release of Framework’s modular laptops. They’re a DIY dream come true thanks to easy upgrades to basically any component, which as the Framework 16 now includes graphics too.
Dell also announced a similar Project Luna concept late last year.
Asus’s 14-inch powerhouse is currently our top pick for best gaming laptop, and all kinds of different of models are currently on sale for Prime Day.
Here’s an all-AMD configuration (with a Radeon RX 6800S) currently listed at $1,199.99, $700 down from its original price of $1,899.99. This RTX 3060 SKU is down to $799.
The 2022 13-inch MacBook Air launched with Bluetooth 5.0, but the tech specs page for the laptop now says it has version 5.3, as reported by MacRumors.
It doesn’t look like this is a quiet mid-cycle hardware swap, as the 2022 model’s Broadcom 4387 now supports Bluetooth 5.3.
So if your 2nd-gen AirPods Pro have been working a little better with your laptop lately, that might be why!
Update July 3rd, 3:24PM ET: Added a link to the last Internet Archive snapshot of the 2022 MacBook Air.
Owners of the Galaxy S20, S21, and S22 who are based in the UK can now access Samsung’s self-repair program, which includes access to repair kits and replacement parts. The Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360 are also included in the program, though it’s only the 15-inch models.
Replaceable phone parts include the screen, back glass, and charging ports; laptop owners an access the case front, case rear, display, battery, touchpad, power key, and rubber feet.
We’re about to see one in the wild. Asus has launched its Chromebook CM34 Flip, one of the first models that will include AMD’s new Ryzen 7020 C-Series processors (which are basically the same chips that AMD released for budget laptops last September, but nevertheless).
The CM34 has Wi-Fi 6, a 16:10 screen, a full-sized backlit keyboard, a physical webcam cover, and a starting price of $499. Asus is claiming 13 hours of battery life, rather than 17, so there’s that.
