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  • Those Intel igpus are much better than most people give them credit for. It's no 3050 mobile but on par than an mx350 with basically up to 32 gb of vram. They shipped laptops with that gpu and that cpu. Asus made one which I find funny. These much more powerful igpus killed off the low end dgpu market. Why get an Nvifia mx350 or a Radeon 630 in a laptop when the igpu is just as powerful and more efficient.

    Also WDYM not compatible with the display? It's edp. I do know that HP will issue bios updates to increase compatibility with parts. (an older HP laptop my friend owns had a bios update that did just that). Unless it's not edp and is something else entirely.

    If it's a touch screen though, it might be more complicated. If it has a seperate digitizer or if it the touch is baked into the panel.

    There's a pretty good chance it actually supports the panel. At least with HP, they source their panels from a bunch of suppliers. LG, Innolux, BOE etc. I've only had LG and Innolux panels in my laptops (mainly Innolux), if you search your model of computer, you can find hardware dumps of people's PCs that run Linux (people share them for ig testing info idk) and they'll have screen models in them. If you find that you find one laptop that has the same display as yours, it should support it.

    Edit: windows is really aggressive with using OEM drivers with the Intel iris xe igpus, like it will reinstall them while running a game aggressive (ok fwiw I left BeamNG running all night because I forgot, and when I checked my laptop in the morning it had crashed and the driver version changed). The drivers are reasonably up to date though.

    They're also kinda buggy. The driver will occasionally restart but not cleanly. My computer will do it's best impression of a broken display and I'll have to restart my laptop. I do have it set to automatically restart when it does crash but it's annoying and I can't trust it.


  • Framework's laptop design revolves around this modularity and advertises it as such.

    However, other laptop manufacturers have done this somewhat. I have an HP pavilion laptop that I motherboard swapped because the original one had some issues, so I replaced it with an 8th gen i7 motherboard. It was a noticable improvement over the 7th gen i5 motherboard that it came with originally, but it ran really hot. (yes I had the correct cooler, it just ran really hot even with the i5 and I couldn't get it to undervolt).

    That laptop used a lot of ribbon cables and subboards. Even the power button and charger were on seperate boards which was nice. Even the newer pavilions use that layout. I plan on upgrading my current pavilion laptop to an Ryzen 7 5825u board as the current i5 is not really working out for me. It's cheaper than buying a new laptop.

    I do really like what framework is doing and I do plan on purchasing one of the 16 in models once I get a decent job and when my laptop either breaks and I cannot fix it or I need something faster.

    Edit: ideally a desktop would be better for my usecase but due to my current living conditions and requirements of a device, a decently powerful laptop that isn't super heavy is a better choice