I have the Framework 12th gen, I am also considering between Intel or AMD for my switch. However, for Intel comparison, I am waiting for Intel Meteor Lake for battery life and graphics performance before I decide.

That being said, my Framework is on loan to my relative at the moment for school. Once it is back, I’ll probably do my own tweaks for Alder Lake and check out battery life. Still wonder if CPU scheduling could be better.

Actually that was what kept me from picking the FP5 to upgrade from my Pixel 4A. The software is really lacking and the updates are slow. Yes they come but they are extremely slow.

I do understand like Framework (a laptop brand I own), is small, in fact, their BIOS updates for the Intel 12th Gen has yet to come after at least a year. But at least I can swap the mainboard out for a new one when I need it (probably looking at Meteor Lake vs Phoenix) and use the mainboard as a secondary PC for a relative or something. So I can still swallow the price.

What’s more the Pixel 8 offered for 655 after discount with taxes+shipping vs 810 before taxes and shipping. I was surprised that I considered Samsung S23 and iPhone 15 base too. I really realised how important software is on a phone now.

Be it using a phone or using Ubuntu instead of many more distributions, sometimes, we just want things to work and less tinkering. We want the option to tinker when we feel the need/for fun, but the baseline is that it must work for all applications we are using the device is for.

I think a carrier board designed to work with the Framework using a RK3588 and RPi5 would be the closest of what we have to that. Probably will need a 3rd party vendor to do it. Framework has pointed out that they are willing to work with a vendor.