But the company\u2019s also revealing some intriguing upgrades that didn\u2019t quite make the cut \u2014 including an extra-large haptic touchpad a la Apple\u2019s MacBooks (with no physical click), and the company\u2019s first external graphics module (eGPU).<\/p>\n
Not everything in the video below is actually coming to market, and some of it won\u2019t be aimed at everyday consumers. Framework CEO Nirav Patel says he\u2019s working to bring the fan-favorite ThinkPad Trackpoint nub<\/a> to its keyboards, but keeps failing because the team can\u2019t find a short enough nub that it doesn\u2019t poke into the Laptop 16\u2019s screen.<\/p>\n But he says a wide haptic touchpad is genuinely in development, one that won\u2019t need the Framework Laptop 16\u2019s modular spacers to give you a full-width palmrest. And if your main concern is just removing those spacers (I occasionally found the uneven surface annoying in my review<\/a>), Framework says it\u2019ll release 3D files so you can print your own full-width palmrest for the existing touchpad, in any color you like.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a look at that 3D-printed one:<\/p>\n Framework also says an eGPU is actually in development that uses the Framework Laptop 16\u2019s GPU modules, but not as a consumer product. Patel says that would make it too expensive to fulfill the team\u2019s main goal: \u201cWe want to make sure there is a pathway to reuse graphics modules coming out of the Framework Laptop 16, so they\u2019re not sitting in a drawer or worse going out into a landfill somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n So it won\u2019t look like the prototype you see below, but rather something targeted at makers, he says \u2014 perhaps we\u2019ll have to 3D print the case for that one ourselves as well.<\/p>\n