There are two timebomb issues, one has occurred a few times, one is likely a matter of time before I’ll come across it myself:
- Already occurred: Not reliably able to wake up from sleep (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) after a lid-close → suspend / sleep.
- Yet to experience personally: Laptop doesn’t power up even when laptop battery is charged.
Other funky issues:
- [HIgh] Battery drain when USB-A and / or HDMI cards are plugged in, but not externally connected to any peripherals.
- USB flash storage / thumb drive randomly dropping connection in the middle of file transfer. Seems to be a thumb drive compatibility related matter, or voltage related thing during data transfer. (That’s why I’m waiting for TB4 certification…that would indicate compliance)
- Gen 1 lid / cover is flimsy,bouncy. Higher likelihood of having cracked display panel than Gen 2 lid (supposedly).
- Hinges…OMG, the hinges. And there’s no public acknowledgement that it’s an issue. At the very least I believe framework should acknowledge that the hinges stiffness has a wide variance range (that’s why some people have issues with them, some don’t).
- Security updates for the BIOS. Also waiting to see if there’s going to be a “Begin charging battery threshold” setting.
- Not getting 60w boost for the tau duration.
There’s also this (which Framework didn’t even respond to confirm nor deny):
…and this:
There seems to be a lack of resources on BIOS/Firmware/EC updates (whether it’s time, people, or skill…or a combination of that).