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Buy the Framework laptop’s $399 motherboard to make your own mini PC

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Buy the Framework laptop’s $399 motherboard to make your own mini PC

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We were fans of Framework’s modular, upgradeable laptop when it was released last year, thanks to its nice design and user-replaceable RAM, SSD, and ports. Today the Framework folks are making it possible to buy the motherboard at the heart of the Framework laptop without buying any of the other laptop parts.

The base version of the board includes a Core i5-1135G7 CPU, to which you can add however much DDR4 RAM or M. 2-based storage you want. A Core i7-1165G7 config will run you $549, while the top-end Core i7-1185G7 costs $799. Like the laptop, the motherboard is powered through its USB-C port, and you can add whatever additional slot modules you like from Framework’s Marketplace.

Framework has also released documentation plus schematics on GitHub to help people design their own enclosures for the Framework motherboard in addition to basic 3D-printable cases you can use to protect the board from the elements. One will be a basic shell, and the other is a VESA-mount option for strapping the board to the particular back of a monitor or TV.

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