• Dave@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    I have a first gen framework and I really like it. Having the ports behave differently on this AMD does seem a little annoying but I guess you’d get used to it.

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s an alright compromise. I rarely move my expansion cards around. I use four USB-C cards and sometimes swap one out for a storage card that has Windows installed on it.

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        1 year ago

        I also don’t move them often, it’s interesting they weren’t able to get all 4 the same though. I haven’t read anything that actually explains it. I guess the CPU can only handle that configuration.

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          The Ryzen 7840U and 7640U, by specification, support 2 USB 4 ports and 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports. So it seems that’s just a limitation by the architecture.

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            1 year ago

            Thanks. I’ve read a few articles about these AMD frameworks but have never seen the reason for the limitation mentioned.

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      1 year ago

      That port issue seems annoying enough to make me want to go with Intel. I had been watching Framework, but kind of wanted to go AMD, so I held off getting on earlier.

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        1 year ago

        USB 3.2 gen 2 isn’t exactly slow. In fact, for USB use cases it’s USB 3.2 gen 2 that runs over the USB 4 ports. It’s just the USB 4 ports can do other protocols too, like thunderbolt, pcie and displayport.

        Seeing as most laptops I see might have 2xUSB-C ports total, I don’t see it as a drawback.

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          It’s more about the annoyance factor. Before buying or using any of the port modules I’d need to check the reference to see what’s compatible. It’s one more thing to think about and it would make me less likely to use the modules.