Framework Laptop 16, six months later

Framework and System76 are both doing great work. Glad they are able to make their businesses thrive, pay their employees and actually deliver a new age of “Linux on the laptop“.

Still looking forward to buying a Framework to put next to my System76

For what it’s worth, the AMD 13” Framework laptop is the best Linux laptop I’ve ever had (running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS). It’s cool, quiet, and very responsive. I absolutely love it.

> For a split second, I thought you were running the vacuum in the living room,” she told me. Just browsing a few websites with the laptop plugged in was enough to cross 70°C

That sounds not awesome…

> The product gave me multiple Blue Screens of Death

Sounds suspiciously like "I didn't assemble my laptop correctly, something is slightly loose somewhere".

As a whole, how many people buy a Framework laptop and put Windows on it, of all things? I can't imagine that's more than 10%.

My wishlist for laptops include a thinkpad caliber keyboard, excellent battery life, a great screen, and for the machine to be able to run cool and quiet - either out of the box or through a combination of undervolting and throttling. I wish Framework came a little closer to that ideal. For the time being I put up with macbooks. I'd like to check out ARM thinkpads when Windows ARM is a little more polished, I haven't tried a thinkpad in many years.

It reads more like a Windows' review than Framework's.

I've had 20 years of thinkpads, and I really like them, but the FW 13 (intel) is the best laptop I've used, including various work provided MBPs (M2).

There is actual honest-to-goodness linux support and active commitment from the manufacturer to continue supporting it. It's the first time in a long time that I've felt my interests were aligned with those of the laptop manufacturer,.

Is the 13in model suffering the same issues? How about under Linux? Would love a solid machine to replace the Apple MBP but I'm very skeptical.

External build quality does look disappointing. I have a 2018 model dell with a plastic case and the screen doesn't flex as much when opened by a corner. It's a 15.6 inch model, but it also has chunkier bezels.

I understand that extra performance is nice in this price class, but I also use the laptop in my lap and I'd like to avoid toasty testies. I still think that a lower power consumption CPU would be the way to go (would have been the bottleneck for the GPU in games?). The current 7840HS model is 14% more performant than the U model (in multithreaded, and around 5% for single threat) at an additional 24W of dissipated power.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5322vs5258/AMD-Ryzen-7-...