Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

Finally, someone offering a proper Danish keyboard. Denmark, Sweden and Norway have long been stymied with the low-effort that is the Nordic keyboard layout. The problem is if you are not familiar with keyboards, then the labels are supposed to help you, but they don't on the Nordic layouts, because it just show three different keymap's labels on some keys, but you don't know which belong to which.

I know Apple also offers a proper Danish keyboard, and I've seen some modern Thinkpads with proper Danish keyboards.

I normally use a US Intl keyboard, but whenever I see a Danish keyboard, I struggle to find the | key.

Learning to touch type is one of the best investments I made early in my career. It's never too late. The fact that you will no longer need to care about whatever is printed on your keyboard is only a minor bonus.

A Swedish keyboard layout works for Norwegian, as long as the Ö maps to Ø and Ä maps to Æ. Or the Danish as well, except there for some reason Æ must map to Ø and Ø must map to Æ, otherwise they're identical. So most keyboards sold in Scandinavia just has one button with ØÖÆ on it and another with ÆÄØ on it, and then based on OS keyboard setting you get the correct one.

Point is, I'm curious why they also just don't release in Norway when they have made the layout? But I guess it's because we're not in the EU that makes it harder?

How good are these? They are pretty highly priced (1600-2000 USD), comparable to a mac laptop. I would expect the quality to be on mac level if i would pay this price for a laptop.

I don't see how it's a problem to stock all keyboard types, such as for the Nordics. It's the same layout, just with different letters. They could just have blank keyboards with the most commonly used layouts and put them in a laser etch jig for custom orders. Similar what they are doing now for screen protectors where they cut them in-store

They were already available since they started selling to the first EU country. As an EU citizen, you have the right[1] to purchase a product from any EU country. Geo-blocking is often prohibited. They now only ship to those countries as well, so you don't have to pick it up from another EU country.

[1]: https://www.eccnet.eu/consumer-rights/what-are-my-consumer-r...

Note while the domain is frame.work, the brand name does not have a . and is just Framework.

I’m still waiting for Ukrainian keyboard.

How hard can it be to get the mappings for all keyboards from gnome or somewhere and apply whatever unicode symbol during the engraving process ?

Can't seem to find the finnish keyboard option for the 13, and it seems to be immediately out-of-stock for the 16.

It's great, though. The keyboard layout was the main thing restricting me from getting a framework. I was just looking at slimbooks yesterday, in fact, since they offer more keyboard layouts.

How modular are these actually?

Like, can you replace the screen, and could a third party produce a new screen module for it?

Can third parties produce any modules for it, or is there some kind of licensing/patent that blocks that?

In case the manufacturer reads comments here:

Can we have a LoRa module?

aww, Norway left out again :-(

They are unfortunately too expensive for me personally, but framework is the only computer manufacturer that do interesting things

I'd like to have one, but all laptops from my stack of laptops just stubbornly refuse to die.

I wish they had a Dvorak keyboard.