{"id":14234,"date":"2025-02-28T03:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14234"},"modified":"2025-02-28T03:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:20:49","slug":"frameworks-first-desktop-is-an-xbox-sized-mini-gaming-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14234","title":{"rendered":"Framework\u2019s First Desktop Is an Xbox-Sized Mini Gaming PC"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The original Framework Laptop\u2019s sales pitch was that it wanted to bring some of the modularity and repairability of the desktop PC ecosystem to a functional, thin, and light laptop. For nearly half a decade, the company has made good on that promise with multiple motherboard upgrades and other tweaks for the original 13-inch Framework Laptop; with the Framework Laptop 16 and Laptop 12, the company has tried to bring the same ethos to gaming\/workstation laptops<\/a> and budget PCs<\/a> for students.<\/p>\n

One of Framework’s announcements this week was for the company’s first desktop PC. Unsurprisingly dubbed the Framework Desktop, it’s aimed less at the general-purpose PC crowd and more at people who want the smallest, most powerful desktop they can build and will pay extra money to get it. Preorders for this system start now, and Framework says it should ship in Q3 of 2025.<\/p>\n

Here was my first question: What does a company trying to build a more desktop-like laptop have to bring to the desktop ecosystem, where things are already standardized, upgradeable, and repairable?<\/p>\n

The answer, at least for the Framework Desktop announced today: a gaming PC that takes advantage of many PC standards and offers a unique combination of small size and high performance, but which is otherwise substantially less<\/em>\u00a0modular and upgradeable than a mini PC you can already buy or build for yourself.<\/p>\n

Tiny but Fast<\/h2>\n
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