The Framework Desktop is a deep disappointment to me. Framework, the company that got into the business with an explicit purpose of building modular and repairable computers, went into a space where that was the norm (desktops), and introduced a PC that was none of those things, at an exorbitant price. When they debuted it, it was marketed specifically as a gaming machine. As much as I want to support them, I cannot reward them for this specific product, as it abandons their fundamental tenets.
Here’s the build. You can see similar builds featured on many YT channels at this point with the new NV10 case and 5060 LP GPU.
Here’s one from ETA Prime
And another from “MRGUI on PC”
This build: ~$1100
Comparable Framework build: ~$1700
I will concede the Framework is still better at a few things:
- Efficiency (I’m not sure that this is to any degree that’s worth being factored in)
- Being that it’s more efficient, it’s also quieter
- Local LLMs (which no one should care about or be using)
- A bit thinner due to not have a dGPU
WTF is a cope? There’s no way anyone actually thinks that marketing for LLMs is not a thing so I can only surmise that your intention is to argue in bad faith or otherwise troll. In which case, goodbye.
Could you provide a single example of marketing for a local LLM?
Do you have any evidence that investment in marketing of LLMs is actually “unprecedented” or trending any differently than marketing as a whole?
I can provide an example of a purpose for a local LLM: offline translation of documents written in a foreign language.