Hello Sprout

Summary

Sprout is the name of my new machine that just arrived. The crowd-funded laptop. Since this beauty is graciously sponsored by a large crowd of people a felt I should share a little bit of its journey and entry into my life. First I needed a name for it, and since it is small and is meant to grow with me a bit, I think Sprout feels apt. The crowd-funding Starting the initiative on a Saturday afternoon might not have been the most clever thing to get widest possible reach, but it seems it did not matter. We reached the goal of 3,500 USD within 90 minutes and people have kept on donating even after that and the counter is now at 7,000 USD. Amazing. As mentioned: all surplus ends up in the general curl fund and will be used solely and exclusively to cover expenses that benefit and favor curl and its development. That is a promise. The curl fund is also completely open and transparent so everyone who wants to can in fact monitor our finances to verify this. Specs I decided to go with a Framework laptop because I like and want to support their concept of modular and upgradable laptops. After the overwhelming funding round, I decided to go with the top of the line AMD CPU alternative they offer, 96GB of RAM and 4TB of storage. This should make the laptop last a while I think. CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Up to 5.1 GHz. 12 cores, 24 threads. Graphics (integrated): AMD Radeon 890M. Up to 2.9GHz. 16 Graphics Cores Wifi: AMD RZ717 Wi-Fi 7 Display: 13.5″ 2880×1920 120Hz matte display (3:2 ratio) Memory: DDR5-5600 – 96GB (2 x 48GB) Storage: WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe – M.2 2280 – 4TB Laptop Bezel: Framework Laptop 13 Bezel – Black Keyboard: Swedish/Finnish (2nd Gen) Dimensions: 15.85mm x 296.63mm x 228.98mm Weight: 1.3 Kg Outputs The laptop has four slots available for ports. I have USB-C, USB-A, HDMI and external Ethernet modules. I bought a few more than four, because I don’t know which exact setup I will prefer and they are interchangeable so I can change them according to the situa...