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Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

arm Linux itself is still a very small market

Android
Raspberry Pi and similar SBCs
data centers (someone linked AWS graviton)
Chromebooks

The list goes on. Linux is well established on ARM, and outside proprietary software, pretty much everything works on it. Desktop linux has been ready on ARM for over a decade, and people would buy it if it existed in a decent laptop.

If Framework can source decently fast ARM chips and board for a decent cost, people will buy then, myself included. If they include a trackpoint and physical mouse buttons (esp middle mouse button), I'd replace my Thinkpad today even if it's still on x86.

There's demand for it today, it's just probably in the thousands instead of millions.