<story><title>Framework Laptops now have 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports</title><url>https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbolt-4-certified</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>And they&amp;#x27;ve introduced a new problem: rather than buying a standardized USB-C dongle, you&amp;#x27;ve got a new one-off form factor.</text></item><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>Offtopic, it&amp;#x27;s amusing and really interesting to me how Framework solved the &amp;quot;dongle&amp;quot; gripe by just... integrating the dongles into the frame.&lt;p&gt;From a HW I&amp;#x2F;O perspective, they&amp;#x27;re not much different than a Macbook Pro with all its USB-C ports. But but recessing them and creating a form-factor that gives you the dongle&amp;#x27;s feature &lt;i&gt;within the laptop&amp;#x27;s bounding-box&lt;/i&gt;, they&amp;#x27;ve effectively solved the problem.&lt;p&gt;Brilliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nrp</author><text>The designs are available on GitHub under Creative Commons licensing: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;FrameworkComputer&amp;#x2F;ExpansionCards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;FrameworkComputer&amp;#x2F;ExpansionCards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve seen both community developed Expansion Cards and other device makers starting to adopt Expansion Cards.</text></comment>
<story><title>Framework Laptops now have 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports</title><url>https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbolt-4-certified</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>And they&amp;#x27;ve introduced a new problem: rather than buying a standardized USB-C dongle, you&amp;#x27;ve got a new one-off form factor.</text></item><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>Offtopic, it&amp;#x27;s amusing and really interesting to me how Framework solved the &amp;quot;dongle&amp;quot; gripe by just... integrating the dongles into the frame.&lt;p&gt;From a HW I&amp;#x2F;O perspective, they&amp;#x27;re not much different than a Macbook Pro with all its USB-C ports. But but recessing them and creating a form-factor that gives you the dongle&amp;#x27;s feature &lt;i&gt;within the laptop&amp;#x27;s bounding-box&lt;/i&gt;, they&amp;#x27;ve effectively solved the problem.&lt;p&gt;Brilliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>Why? You can just load the laptop with four USB-C adapters and stick to USB-C for everything if you want to.</text></comment>