They can have up to 64 gigs of RAM, but internally apparently they only support up to 1TB hard drive [0], and while you can have "external" hard drives in the expansion modules, you are giving up IO to have it (half the IO slots if you wanted to get all the way to 3 TB)
I don't quite understand why it couldn't accept a larger internal hard drive, but if it could I don't know why "up to 1 TB of NVME storage" would be their marketing copy.
Here is the paasage. My interpretation of it is different from yours.
>Memory and storage are socketed, enabling you to load up whenever you’d like. The pre-built configuration comes with 8GB of DDR4 and 256GB NVMe storage and can be upgraded to up to 64GB of DDR4 and 1TB of NVMe storage.
Hard to say but the "up to" may be only the limit the framework company wants to stock and sell.
With regards to the memory I went looking and the framework has 2 ddr5 laptop dimm slots. The largest I was able to find were 48 gb modules so the physical limit may be 96gb.
And as a closing note, this was the first time I really looked at the framework laptop page. And while I am still not sure about the build quality or the usefulness of the "ports". the number of guides and photos of laptops under surgery sold me, I think I found my next machine.
> Hard to say but the "up to" may be only the limit the framework company wants to stock and sell.
It has to be something like that. That's a standard length M.2 slot...
> https://community.frame.work/t/will-framework-chromebook-wor...Installed WD Black SN850X 4 TB (WDS400T2X0E) on my Framework Chromebook. I’ve been using it for a month and a half now. Everything is fine. The only point, probably due to which the use of such disks is not officially recommended, is the excessive reserved space for the OS. Apparently this is a legacy of the times when disks in Chromebooks were of small sizes. If you are happy with the situation where a quarter of the disk will be idle for technical reasons, then you can take it.
your google fu is stronger than mine. I specifically tried to find such a thread and failed. Well done! The stocking argument makes sense to me, and makes more physical sense as well, since, as actual hardware limitations, both the RAM and storage limits would have been highly unusual and would have almost certainly needed to be purposefully implemented for some reason.
I don't quite understand why it couldn't accept a larger internal hard drive, but if it could I don't know why "up to 1 TB of NVME storage" would be their marketing copy.
[0]https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop-chr...