Shut the front door. Framework is cutting prices on its laptop SSDs. In fact, it will be supplying some 1 TB drives at lower cost than an existing 500 GB option and some existing pre-orders that haven't shipped are included in the price drop. So, has the worm finally turned on the AI-driven memory and storage shortage?
Unfortunately, that is probably a stretch. These price cuts only apply very narrowly and specifically to optional PCIe Gen 5 SSDs.
"We finally have some good news for you, around the pricing on PCIe Gen 5 SSDs for Framework Laptop 13 Pro. We were able to qualify and source a new SSD from our partner ADATA, the XPG MARS 970, that offers better performance, efficiency, and long term reliability, and comes in at substantially lower cost than the SSD option we had previously qualified," Framework's head honcho Nirav Patel said in the company's latest...
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