This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and I suspect it won’t be the last.
This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and I suspect it won’t be the last.
If not for the price.
And the battery life
And the ugly and cumbersome ethernet expansion card.
To be fair though, if you’re hooking up an Ethernet cord you’ve already lost in the “ugly and cumbersome” department.
Fine, then “more ugly and cumbersome” than it needs to be. I frequently have to hook up laptops to devices that simply don’t have wifi (think unconfigured network devices like routers and the like), so connecting via cable is the only option. Having a gigantic, plastic, snag-prone wart sticking out of my laptop certainly wouldn’t help matters.
Makes sense!
And the poor firmware support
Really? I am considering Framwork. What is wrong with the firmware support?
It seems to be getting a little better lately, but historically they just didn’t give firmware updates. I went 3 years without a stable bios update for my 12th gen Intel mainboard despite known vulnerabilities since launch (just got its first update last month).
I actually upgraded my mainboard within that time, so I went the full lifetime of the product with an insecure BIOS and none of the firmware improvements that were promised at launch like thunderbolt 4 certification. For all practical purposes, firmware support ended when it left the factory until just last month.
That said, my new ryzen ai 350 main board just got its first update to patch some vulns that were disclosed a month ago. So still not in time for the coordinated disclosure, but a month is way better than 3 years so I’ll take what I can get.