Don’t wory about that, CAMM is still nowhere near ready.
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Are the USB 3.2 ports 20 gbps?
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Depends on what you mean by “ready.”
I’ve replaced CAMM modules in Dell laptops…
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The dell version is a thing, the jdec version isn’t ad may be incompatible with the initial dell ones.
I also was/am worried about the memory. Not for the CPU but GPU side of things. Without proper reviews we can only guess.
There is, however, DDR5 6400 SODIMM announced: SK hynix Intros World's First 32 GB DDR5-6400 SODIMM & UDIMM Memory Module
Nothing available to buy yet, but it maybe when the Frameworks are actually shipped.
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Supposedly, this video from GPD shows off the performance of the Radeon 780M and 760M iGPUs, using the 680M for comparison. Not 100% sure if accurate, but I found the performance of the 760M particularly interesting.
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Worth noticing the computer with the 680M has LPDDR5-6400 memory and the 780M and 760M computers have LPDDR5-7600 memory, so while useful the comparison is not apples to apples.
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I didn’t catch that, good eye.
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Unfortunately AMD doesn’t actively engage with us over Linux laptop testing and the major OEMs/ODMs aren’t actively engaging at large with the relatively small Linux niche especially from the PR side.
@Matt_Hartley can Framework do anything 
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Niche life bro lol
The Windows benchmarking should still give a relative approximation, you then want to pick from the OEMs who offer that chip in a combination you can accept with Linux support adequate for the bits you want.
Luxury of a computer shop, if you happen to work in one, is trying this stuff in the process of selling it to someone else; you could assemble a build for a client, then on your own time that evening put Linux on it with a spare drive and test, swapping the customer drive back in before sale. Every job has it’s perks. 
Does this mean that the two ports closest to the display are usb4 or the two ports furthest away from the display?
Looking at amd’s site for the ports available at least on the 7840u it supports up to 2 usb4 ports and 2 usb 3.2 10gbps ports
Doesn’t quite answer Malik’s question… USB4 can be 20 or 40. OEM decides.
If it’s 40, FW13 owners are rocking one of the best options they can hope for… I skimmed the thread, don’t think this has been answered here yet.
But hey, official announcements are a start! Hooray! Now hurry up AMD, put out the rest of your products. insert waving money gif
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I’ve checked again on the datasheets for at least the 7840u and my assumption is that this holds true for the 7640u. The datasheets say that it supports 2 usb4 40gpbs ports and 2 usb 3.2 10gpbs ports. Framework 13 owners will be getting the best that the chip can offer. We know that it’s usb4 40gpbs because the announcement states that the boards have 2 fully capable ports. I’m quite excited for it and pre-ordered my 7840u board last night
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It’s Q3 now. Waiting for it to ship.
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Has there been anymore informal news about the AMD version? I think this LTT video was the last thing to hit my feed a month ago. (World Exclusive: Upgrading my Laptop to AMD - YouTube) The comment there was that they were still “working on drivers”, but it was nebulous. I suppose if they had “real” news they’d be putting it on the blog. 
My fingers are crossed that it will work well with Linux out of the box. I figured I had plenty of time to wait out “early adopter issues”, but my current laptop just died so… >_< Oh well, such is life. My desktop and Steam Deck have been taking up the slack.
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@Scott_Lembcke There were, apparently, actual news sent out a couple of days ago to those in early preordering batches. TL;DR is that the upstream (AMD etc) firmware is actually still not entirely done, and testing with new prereleases of those uncovered unexpected power-consumption problems that required last-minute changes to the mainboard:
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I was wondering, is there some reason when I ordered this board upgrade kit it comes with a new WiFi adapter? Will old ones not work?
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The old ones should work:
although I think I remember reading that some preassembled (not DIY) versions came with the Intel AX201/AX211 which would not.
Look it up in your existing FW laptop. If it’s AX210 it should work on Ryzen.
If the old one is an AX210 it should work, however neither AMD nor Intel officially recommend it.
If the old one is an AX201/AX211 it won’t work.
IIRC the 11th gen Intel pre-builts have the AX201 and the Framework Chromebook have the AX211. Everything else is AX210.
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