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New Linux StarFighter laptop family debuts starting at $1,878 — Star Labs Systems' laptops arrive with spacious RAM, several options (www.tomshardware.com)
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Star Labs Systems, a UK-based Linux hardware startup, has finally launched the StarFighter laptop — a high-performance laptop built with premium materials and designed primarily to run a Linux operating system.

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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, thats true but framework solved this with LPCAMM2 modules, which have much higher write speeds that sodimm. And just because "few actually upgrade it" doesnt mean all ram should be soldered, as having unsoldered ram caters to a completely different consumer market.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Didn't they go with soldered RAM with their desktop PC, though?

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    They did but there was no alternative for the "AI Max", it has much higher requirements for bandwith than traditional CPU RAM. They were investigating the possibility for LPCAMM2 or LPCAMM for that system but it was not feasible to maintain that bandwith while retaining data integrity. For the Desktop it was the right choice. It was designed for local inference applications and there the memory bandwidth is absolutely crucial.

    For the new Framework 13 Pro however with an Intel based SOC they have now successfully implemented LPCAMM2.

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