>From the blog post:

> This Mainboard is extremely compelling, but we want to be clear that in this 
> generation, it is focused primarily on enabling developers, tinkerers, and 
> hobbyists to start testing and creating on RISC-V. The peripheral set and 
> performance aren’t yet competitive with our Intel and AMD-powered Framework 
> Laptop Mainboards. *This board also has soldered memory and uses MicroSD 
> cards and eMMC for storage, both of which are limitations of the processor. 
> *It is a great way to start playing with RISC-V though inside of a thin, 
> light, refined laptop.

Also, it's not very powerful; a Raspberry Pi 4 blows it out of the water: 
https://www.phoronix.com/review/visionfive2-riscv-benchmarks

Unless you're just wanting to tinker with RISC-V, this isn't going to be your 
next laptop.

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024, at 7:01 PM, Austin Godber via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I was hoping for an ARM option.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 6:35 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> Am 18. Jun, 2024 schwätzte Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss so:
>> 
>> moin moin,
>> 
>> > https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing
>> >
>> > So now they have a RISC V CPU option coming... Interesting.
>> 
>> Cool. It'd be fun to play with that :)
>> 
>> More importantly to me, it's partner developed hardware. It shows
>> Framework trying to build an ecosystem around modular hardware.
>> 
>> ciao,
>> 
>> der.hans
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