Snowleopard Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 I love my X170SM-G for the most part, but I am already thinking about my next laptop, it seems like this is the last of the great desktop replacement laptops? I am looking at the future and thinking: Motherboard: PCIE 5.x or 6.x Ram: DDR 5 / DDR 6 , 4 slots up to 512gb Nvme slots: 4 is nice, maybe 6 if at all possible Graphics....... Not sure what will be out at that point, but something in an upgradable card, like a new revision to MXM with 16 or 32gb memory for the GPU. Display: 4k 240 or 8k 240 / Samsung QD LED Gen 4 or 5 panel Thunderbolt 4 or 5 (chipset that has full compatibility) Wi-Fi 7 or Wi-Fi 8 The Wi-Fi nic with bluetooth needs to have an antenna on it for longer range blue tooth. 60-120 feet of range 10gig eithernet port Graphene cooling pads/ paste Graphene based battery technology Onboard IR/ RF for wireless mice SD Express and Micro SD Express card slots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrosoft Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Unless Framework gets something out by the time you want to upgrade (they are working on a GPU upgrade enabled laptop via snap in modules), you may only be stuck with BGA all around. Clevo's last DTR'ish laptop with swappable parts was the NH55 (12th gen). Electrosoft Alpha: SP109 14900KS | Asrock Z790i Lightning | MSI Suprim X Liquid 4090 | AC LF II 420 | TG 2x16GB 8200 | Samsung 990 Pro 2TB | EVGA 1600w P2 | Phanteks Ethroo Pro | Alienware AW3225QF 32" OLED Ellectrosoft Beta: Eurocom X15 Raptor | i9-12900k | Nvidia RTX 3070ti | Samsung 990 2TB | 15.6" 144hz | Wifi 6E Heath: i9-12900k | EVGA CLC 280 | Asus Strix Z690 D4 | Asus Strix 3080 | 32GB DDR4 2x16GB B-Die 4000 | WD Black SN850 512GB | EVGA DG-77 | Samsung G7 32" 144hz 32" My for sale items on eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1610ftw Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 On 4/25/2023 at 8:59 PM, electrosoft said: Unless Framework gets something out by the time you want to upgrade (they are working on a GPU upgrade enabled laptop via snap in modules), you may only be stuck with BGA all around. Clevo's last DTR'ish laptop with swappable parts was the NH55 (12th gen). Framework reportedly want to make their solution open to others which is great - it means that a manufacturer that is ready to go 18" could use it. It would be so cool to have such a graphics solution in a DTR, hopefully it will find more widespread adoption. Also another potential benefit has not been mentioned: Instead of that graphics module we may also have the ability to connect an external GPU module that could contain the biggest and baddest GPUs out there Add a socketed CPU and we may have upgradeability for a few generations even with Intel when they start with next gen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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