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Open Hardware/Modding: Framework, SBCs, and 2025 One Hertz Challenge
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Framework Desktop review: AMD's Strix Halo in a petite, powerful, pricey PC
But the system doesn't feel entirely like Framework. The fact that it's less repairable and upgradeable than the company's laptops is odd, but it's the cost of using a mobile processor, which is soldered to the board, along with soldered RAM (which is effectively necessary for the chip the team chose). It's not wrong, but it will likely make the system less appealing for many potential buyers who aren’t specifically interested in AI.
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37signals LLC ☛ The Framework Desktop is a beast
So if you just want the best, small computer that runs Linux superbly well out of the box, you should buy the Framework Desktop. It's completely quiet, fantastically fast, and super fun to look at.
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CNX Software ☛ Geniatech XPI-3576 – A Rockchip RK3576 SBC with “extended credit card” form factor
Geniatech XPI-3576 is another Rockchip RK3576 SBC with up to 16GB RAM, up to 128GB flash, a M.2 Key B+M socket for storage or Hey Hi (AI) accelerator, HDMI 2.1 video output, MIPI DSI and CSI connectors, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, a few USB ports, a 40-pin GPIO header, and a terminal block with RS232, RS485, and CAN Bus interfaces. Genatech launched the XPI family in 2018, starting with the XPI-S905X single board computer, which follows the Raspberry Pi 3 form factor.
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Framework Computer BV ☛ Framework Desktop press reviews are live!
Press reviews of Framework Desktop are now live, and we’re starting shipments of Batch 1 pre-orders next week! This was the largest set of press units we’ve ever sent out for a product launch, both because so many reviewers wanted to try it out and because we wanted to show just how incredibly capable Ryzen AI Max is across a range of use cases. The reviews and videos posted today cover gaming, DIY PC building, machine learning, homelab, Linux workstation, and general PC productivity scenarios. Reviewers called out the multi-core performance, the workloads that 128GB of memory can enable, how quiet the system is both at idle and under load, and surprise at just how tiny it is. Here are some of our favorite highlights: [...]
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Hackaday ☛ 2025 One Hertz Challenge: The Real-Time Clock The VIC-20 Never Had
Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system. [David Hunter] has seen fit to rectify that with an add-on module as his entry to the 2025 One Hertz Challenge.