This shipping is amazing! I got the notice on Sunday night in New Jersey that my card was charged. The package was leaving Taiwan yesterday morning and is currently on a truck for delivery to my home today. Charge to delivery window is about 48 hours. Great work Framework team!
I finally got the email for being charged last night, and when I woke up this morning, I already got a tracking number that’s on the way 
Delivered!
WTF!!!
FEDEX LEFT THE PACKAGE AT THE DOOR AND UPDATED THE STATUS TO “SAFELY DELIVERED”
Had to drive back from the office, and at least the package was still there.
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@AlexRtz oof, that’s been my concern too that they would leave it even if I wasn’t home. I’ve redirected my shipment to be held at one of FedEx’s shipping centers nearby hoping that will prevent the same thing from happening to me. That and if the package is damaged I can talk to them right there about it.
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Oh damn, same thing just happened to me. Delivery was 5 minutes ago… your update prompted me to check.
I had subscribed to FedEx updates by email but they didn’t send an “On FedEx vehicle for delivery” update when that happened 3 hours ago, so I’m about to rush home to avoid rain/porch pirate issues. At least it doesn’t look damaged in the photo…
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Got a text message this morning at 7:50am from my subscribed FedEx alerts that my delivery was scheduled for tomorrow 11/01, and then a FedEx guy showed up at the door a few hours later 10/31, just after 11am. That’s some strange tracking/delivery updates, but I’m not going to complain. Now there’s so much to do to put it through its paces. Memtest86 the RAM, install an OS and transfer everything over, reinstall apps, copy preferences and reconfigure- that’s the part I hate. Hopefully it goes smoothly.
Documenting: my unit came with BIOS 3.02. R5 DIY.
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My order to Vancouver, Canada, also arrived at my door (I’m in an apartment, though). Both boxes were quite banged up, just fedex things I suppose:
I’ll test the mainboard later today, hopefully it’s OK.
Edit: Update, appears to work okay. Bios version is 3.02 and I’m trying to upgrade it now.
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My order also arrived today here in Calgary!
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Received mine with 3.02 firmware. What are the current drawbacks with upgrading to 3.03?
Mostly issues with chargers not working after the update. But FW has decided that the gains to 3.03 far outweigh any regressions, and is pushing 3.03 as a stable release.
I just assembled my R5, installed the latest nightly ISO of Fedora 39, upgraded the BIOS to 3.03, and am looking forward to all the goodness to come.
Just configured mine!
- Installed Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon
- Updated BIOS to 3.03
- Updated kernel and implemented fingerprint
Some issues I found:
- Linux Mint login window resolution is really small, the elements are huge! It was fine before I updated the kernel though.
- Fingerprint on an empty session (whether from boot or if logged out) does not work and re-loops back to login window. Pasword needs to be typed first. The fingerprint works on unlock (with existing session), sudo or admin right requests inside session.
Other than that! Pretty zippy! Will try out running VirtualBox VMs that have Docker container instances and see how that holds up!
Ordered on April 3, arrived just now (to northern Germany)!
If you happen to have “signature on file”, this would be why it as left unsigned for. Do you happen to know if this is the case?
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Upgraded my laptop last night, and then promptly installed my old 11th gen board into my waiting CoolerMaster case. Both machines working flawlessly. Super happy with the upgrade! In particular, while my laptop was already reasonably fast (now faster!) I’m actually most satisfied with the encased 11th gen board – it replaced my old HTPC machine from 2015. That thing flies now, and has no problem playing high bitrate H265 videos!
The only thing that I wasn’t expecting was the boot time of the new motherboard on the first boot. I had forgotten about the memory training and was briefly concerned when I was staring at a black screen for 2-3 minutes.
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received mine yesterday - spent today (public holiday in germany) setting up ubuntu 23.10 - and iam super happy with the Framework 13 so far 
keep up the good work Framework! 
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Yes, I do have my signature on file, but that wasn’t the issue. I was expecting FedEx to send a notification when the item was out for delivery, and that didn’t happen. Everything worked out though!
Last night, I tried to run a VirtualBox VM (Lubuntu guest) with the UEFI secure boot still enabled.
I had to setup a MOK signing key, enroll it in the UEFI firmware and then sign the modules. The annoying thing is that every boot, I need to re-sign the VirtualBox modules for the VM to start!
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