This might sound ludicrous, but I've never been so happy to see a new gaming laptop release. I was a big fan of the original Framework 16 machine, bringing with it the possibility of a genuinely modular gaming laptop that could grow over the years in the same way a normal desktop rig can. And now here is the theoretically inevitable upgrade, bringing Nvidia's RTX Blackwell architecture as a slot-in option for Framework's 16-incher.
I say 'theoretically inevitable' only because that was effectively the promise Framework made upon launch of the original Framework 16. Yet no other company has managed this feat, with such luminaries as Dell/Alienware being the most notable of failures. So, there's been a little niggle at the base of my brainstem since launch that maybe it might not happen this time, either.
