Getting Windows on what amounts to a USB storage device might be a little dicey.
I went Ubuntu 22.04 after briefly toying with 23.10. Since the next LTS is just a few months away I can be patient and wait a little longer for some of the nice things in 23.10. I do still need to finish getting the fingerprint reader all the way working and see if there’s a way to improve rendering for fractional scaling but overall its going real well. I’m trying to resist the temptation to go to Windows on this machine, but I live my professional life in VS Code, Office and PowerShell so we’ll see heh. I can at least get two out of three working well in Ubuntu.
If it’s any consolation, I’ve been using a Gen 1 Framework 13 (Intel i7 - Gen 11) for the last couple of years. I just now did an upgrade of the mainboard because I wanted the battery life gain from the 7840U while also improving compute and RAM speeds. I use my Framework for personal and work-related development on-the-go so it’s gotten a lot of use docked and undocked. Since purchasing, I’ve upgraded the screen (original didn’t come with a matte screen), I’ve upgraded the internal hinge, and now I’ve swapped out the mainboard. The next upgrade is the battery whenever the bigger one becomes available again. Each upgrade has taken me less than 30 minutes, and there are guides and QR codes for everything.
Anecdotally, having owned Thinkpads, Macbooks (x86 and M1), a Librem 14, and a Dell XPS, I have to say I’ve been the happiest with my Framework. It is incredibly easy to upgrade and replace parts, and they’ve been improving on all aspects with each iteration.
All this to say, it’s been a great investment for me and I’m sure it will be for you as well. I do think you’ll be happy with it! Cheers!
Oh same. This is actually my first upgrade since getting a FW 11th Gen i5 (I was I think in Batch 5), so in the end purchasing a FW is way cheaper and sustainable then getting whole new hardware.
I’m also a clumsy man, so my top cover is big banged, and when I noticed it was bulging the screen a tiny bit, I could simply remove the LCD, bend it back, and there we go.
Got Windows 11 on the 1TB expansion Module and Fedora 39 on my M.2, also set an EQ because wow the speakers sucked without one. Quite happy with everything so far and setup has been pretty easy overall.
The Custom EQ was in both Fedora and Windows, I found this to be incredibly useful Speaker Sound Quality - Framework, I ended up trying all the presets there and the ones I would recommend are Lappy_McTopface’s and Philonmetal, although I am partial to Philonmetal myself.
I was planning on replacing mine as well but I wanted to test the RZ616 first, My wireless connection has been fine since I made sure to install the latest driver bundle but my Bluetooth is extremely unreliable, to me that’s a pro so unless I get actual connectivity bottlenecks or connection drops I’m going to stick with it.
Got the email at 11:34 CET that order is shipped, status is also changed in the order to shipped. Left Fedex origin facility in Taiwan, estimated arrival Thursday to Germany.
Seems like there is movement for shipments to the EU. I was hoping the UK orders would be included in this but I guess no such luck. Not been charged or had any update on shipping
Just checked the same and it’s showing as a pending transaction on my credit card and also showing as zero balance left on framework website. Nothing on shipping yet though.
I’m also seeing payment pending and full amount as my deposit in my Framework account. UK resident - DIY 7640 with own SSD, RAM, Power & OS. I did buy the 1TB expansion card - as I plan to dual boot Windows & Ubuntu & wanted a large shared disk for non high speed storage. Will be using it for programming. Keen to get the AMD chipset for its HW codecs - wondering how they compare with Intel or NVidia (or Apple for that matter).
