<story><title>Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more</title><url>https://frame.work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>&amp;quot;We’ve partnered with Cooler Master to create an awesome new way to re-use your Framework Laptop Mainboards: a transparent, small form factor case. This will be available this Spring for $39 USD.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is the way.&lt;p&gt;More vendors should do that. A huge load of obsolete but perfectly working laptop mainboards could be repurposed to other uses. Need a small system to set up a service on a LAN but don&amp;#x27;t want to feed scalpers by buying their outrageously overpriced Raspberry PIs? What about reusing the board from that old EeePC many of us already have, etc?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2muchcoffeeman</author><text>The product page for the case also links to a 3D printed case in the framework GitHub &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;frame.work&amp;#x2F;au&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;cooler-master-mainboard-case&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;frame.work&amp;#x2F;au&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;cooler-master-mainboard-ca...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more</title><url>https://frame.work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>&amp;quot;We’ve partnered with Cooler Master to create an awesome new way to re-use your Framework Laptop Mainboards: a transparent, small form factor case. This will be available this Spring for $39 USD.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is the way.&lt;p&gt;More vendors should do that. A huge load of obsolete but perfectly working laptop mainboards could be repurposed to other uses. Need a small system to set up a service on a LAN but don&amp;#x27;t want to feed scalpers by buying their outrageously overpriced Raspberry PIs? What about reusing the board from that old EeePC many of us already have, etc?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>porphyra</author><text>The $449 Intel 1340p or AMD Ryzen mainboard seems to be attractively priced against other barebones mini PCs and the Mac Mini too!</text></comment>