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  • My favorite Framework product actually probably is...

  • So this is a tough one, because almost all of the most technical employees in Framework are using either Ubuntu, Fedora, or NixOS.

  • I'm mostly on Windows, because we need actually people to be using Windows, because our employee base in Framework, they're all Linux users, and so to make sure that the Windows experience is good and solid and really robust,

  • I am the designated Windows power user to go and pound on Windows to make sure Windows is really stable.

  • I do also have a machine that's up and running on the latest Ubuntu, 2404, which has been actually really solid as well.

  • I am an Ubuntu user, normally. I've been using it since...

  • Whatever it was... I'm so old.

  • It was the first version that came on the CD, and I was on Debian before that, and Ubuntu came out as this miracle where you don't have to do any setup at all, you can just put in the CD and install it and it works.

  • And so I've kind of been an Ubuntu user on and off since then.

  • I started using Linux in, let's see, 2004, 2003 or 2004, and I actually did it to host a website on a little...

  • Must have been like a 386-powered desktop in my bedroom to run this little website that I was running, and then from there I started playing with Linux basically pretty consistently since then.

  • There was pretty long periods of time where I was basically only on Linux and I've rotated around different OS.

  • Of course, I'm on Windows right now, so that's something you can test in Windows.

  • My current framework laptop 13 with this new Intel Core Ultra Series 1.

  • I actually, probably every time we release a new set of updates,

  • I go and start dogfooding them. I start testing them out.

  • And so basically my favorite laptop continues to evolve because I've just been replacing it piece by piece over the last three or four years.

  • But I love the new display, the new webcam's awesome, our new actual thermal performance and fan performance on the Intel Series is pretty amazing.

  • And of course, got my favorite expansion card configuration, two USB-C, one display port, and then using this SD one really for testing purposes.

  • I don't particularly use SD that often, but it's been quite useful actually for 3D printing as well.

  • The new webcam was pretty challenging.

  • I think we are probably the first ones to be using this image sensor.

  • Omnivision just released this pretty advanced new image sensor relatively recently.

  • I think they might've released it last year or started shipping it last year.

  • I don't think anyone else has used it in a notebook before.

  • And one of the challenges with notebooks broadly is for the webcam specifically, is that the image sensors are pretty terrible.

  • Like, you know, you look at laptops and you think like, why are these so bad?

  • Our cell phones have these incredible cameras, incredible image sensors, and we're stuck back in the stone age on these laptops.

  • And part of the reason is that people are trying to squeeze this bezel to be so tiny and they're sacrificing image quality and the webcam to do that.

  • And the image sensors that are available mostly are on these incredibly old technologies.

  • And so Omnivision looked at that and decided, okay, we're going to fix this.

  • And so they released this new 9.2 megapixel image sensor that really actually does take all of that latest and greatest smartphone-focused technology and finally brings it into a laptop-focused image sensor.

  • And we were, as far as I know, the first ones to ship this, which means that we did have to go through some of the learning curve on bringing that image sensor and bringing that, you know, the interface chip up to speed to make it work in a laptop.

  • The whole team at Framework that worked on this product is just incredibly excited to get this out to you.

  • Everyone was just super passionate about perfecting this product year over year.

  • And really, I think we were getting there.

  • We're pretty close to perfect on this thing.

  • And so we really can't wait to see what you think of it.

My favorite Framework product actually probably is...

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