Framework Unveils $39 Storage Expansion Module

Framework has announced a $39 Dual M.2 Adapter for its Laptop 16, enabling users to add two additional M.2 slots to the laptop's expansion bay. The new component allows for up to 26TB of total storage when combined with the laptop's existing SSD slots, supporting various M.2 form factors with PCIe 4.0 connectivity.

The company also replaced the Laptop 16's liquid metal cooling system with Honeywell PTM7958 thermal paste to address performance concerns. Framework will provide the new thermal solution to existing customers upon request. The adapter marks Framework's first modular expansion component for the Laptop 16 since its launch, complementing the optional Radeon RX 7700S graphics card offering.

Serious contender

[linuxguy]

The Framework 13" laptop will become a serious contender for my next laptop once it starts offering the new power efficient Intel Lunar Lake CPUs. I am currently addicted to the energy efficiency and performance of MacBooks. But I also hate paying through the nose for RAM and storage upgrades. The new Intel CPUs bridge the power and efficiency gap and get very close to where MacBooks are.

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[serafean]

AMD strix point with hopefully LPCAMM2 memory is my sweet spot.
Not touching Intel for a while with their latest blunders.

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[RockDoctor]

And there - linuxguy's "Intel Lunar Lake CPUs" versus serafean's "AMD strix point with hopefully LPCAMM2" - is where the problem lays. Too many options - most "I wanna" posts won't get fulfilled.

I love my Framework 16, but still missing

[rleibman]

I want a dvorak keyboard! And the camera sucks, but other than that, the thing is lovely, adding memory took me 5 minutes.

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[RockDoctor]

The "touchpad" connector looks like a standard laptop component - single-sided ribbon, about 15 wide - so I'd expect the keyboard would be too. Then your problem reduces to finding a supplier which makes a Dvorak layout with connecting holes in the right place.

But for a considerably larger market - do they make UK-layout keyboards? To which the answer is yes - they do the base keyboard in 2 styles (ANSI, L-shift is 2 wide and Enter is 1 high ; versus ISO, L-shift 1 wide and Enter 2 high ; "JIS coming soon"

What is the interface?

[RockDoctor]

Speaking as someone who was poking around to get this laptop working a while back, and tried putting a convenient 2TB 12mm spinning rust hard drive into a SATA caddy and into the optical drive bay ... well, SATA is just interchangeable between all manufacturers, these days. Whit interfaces do they use on these modules?

Looking through the site - the interface card doesn't seem to have any edge connectors to slot into the rest of the machine. Maybe some of the contacts on 20th-in spacing are for a press-on c