The most ambitious laptop ever Just got the long promised modular upgrade. starting today, You can pay $39 The Framework adds two additional M.2 slots to the Laptop 16-inch—letting you potentially add an AI accelerator, an eGPU adapter, or a whole host of other M.2 slots. Four Solid state storage sticks to ridiculous capacity.
As the framework's blog post Tellingly, the new “Dual M.2 Adapter” is the first new modular component of the framework since its launch that takes advantage of the Laptop 16's larger expansion area. At launch, you only had two options: a Radeon RX 7700S discrete graphics card for the extra money, or a mostly empty bay containing only fans.
But now, you can add dual M.2 adapters to that empty bay to fit an additional pair of M.2 2280, 2260, 2240 or 2230 modules, each with four lanes of PCIe 4.0, At the top To begin with, the laptop comes with twin SSD slots (M.2 2280 and M.2 2230).
Current stick SSD capacities are around 8TB (2280) and 2TB (2230) respectively, which means you can theoretically have about 26TB of storage at once… not counting any 1TB Framework Expansion Card You stick to the sides of the laptop, or any huge SD cards you have plugged in $25 full size sd card module That framework finally released this fall.
(With 2TB SD cards on the market, I think the actual maximum capacity of the Framework Laptop 16 is now 38TB.)
And while those who purchased the Radeon discrete GPU won't be able to benefit without swapping out that module, thankfully swaps are quick and easy:
In addition to the adapter, Framework has swapped out the Framework Laptop 16's liquid metal cooling for Honeywell PTM7958 thermal paste, and will help provide whatever the customer asksWhile the framework characterizes this as a change to fix potential “performance degradation” over time, I certainly encountered uncomfortable levels of heat and fan noise right away. in my review And long term testing,