I guess it’s due to the military drills of Chinese army around Taiwan a few weeks ago. Ships and planes couldn’t leave Taiwan for some time and then a lot of packages left around the same time creating a big queue in custom.
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Picked up mine from my neighbour (who was nice enough to receive it while I was away) last night and I’m very happy with it. The i7-1260P is such a massive upgrade from my previous i7-8550U (compilation times cut in half or even less) and the screen is awesome.
The fans are a little bit loud for my taste and battery life seems a little rough, so I’ll probably see if I can limit package power a little to work around those. It’ll probably still be plenty fast enough for me 
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Upon closer inspection I noticed that the fins of the heatsink were bent, blocking quite a bit of the air output. In this image only part of the damage is visible, but the right section had like half of the holes squeezed shut.
I partially removed the mainboard from the case (can lift the back part up without removing the delicate battery connector) and carefully straightened them with a small flathead screwdriver and it does seem like thermal performance has improved!
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I haven’t exhaustively tested any of your items but so far I don’t have a practical issue with them. However, I did a quick test with my 2.4GHz WiFi SSID just now. I have WiFi6 APs and 2.4GHz is setup with 20MHz channels. Testing close to the AP I got about 160mbps throughput, and moving to a moderate (but not coverage limit) spot in a separate room through a couple of walls I got just under 50 Mbps. It looks like the max connection rate for 2x2 20MHz is 287 Mbps so 160Mbps real-world throughput is definitely good. On the other end of things, I’m not sure how to judge the 50Mbps but it seems reasonable for drop-off given the location. If interested I can grab some software to report actual RSSI and compare to my phone, etc.
5GHz throughput is very good, no issues IMO. I run 80MHz channels, so maximum link rate is 1.2Gbps and I get throughput around 700Mbps with strong signal. I have pretty good coverage in general so most of the house I get 300-400+ if not the full 700.
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The tracking status finally changed to “Held, cleared regulatory agency(s) after aircraft/ truck departed.” and then “In transit” a few hours later.
Looks like it’s moving again 
Yep, same thing for me! It’s finally moving again!! But if anyone’s wondering, there’s no scheduled delivery date for the moment, which is not a pressing problem.
Thanks a lot @lessthanjoey @cfcurtis @ngxson . I am very interested in those kind of edge cases. Glade to read that the biggest FW bugs are corrected in this V2.
Don t hesitate to update us on those. I am waiting for my delivery of batch 2 this month 
- Wifi even at 20MB is good enough for videoconferencing. For me troubles really arrive when you are in a spot away from the router with low wifi signal. That s where a good laptop shines and keep up the connexion better than others.
After 16 days, it was delivered today.
It seem to have moved very quickly over night… Last update before I went to bed yesterday was that it had cleared customs a 2nd time,but after aircraft/ truck departed. So I wasn’t expecting it today.
Thanks all
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I understand custom delays but after my package left AK, it’s going in a big circle (AK => IN => TX) around me (WA) in these three days…
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Try contacting support! My fan is a bit loud as well and while I didn’t see any obvious damage, I took a video of it and sent it in and they confirmed that it shouldn’t sound like that. They’re sending a new fan/heatsink unit. I’m so glad I don’t have to send the whole thing back to get that part replaced.
I’d highly suggest improving your wifi coverage in general if you have to do videoconferencing at the limits of 2.4GHz range.
Mine was delivered earlier today! I’m so happy!
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A great way to do this is getting a better router than the stock one from your Internet Service Provider. Although, it can depend on your line-in. I had a lot of trouble finding something good for a DSL connection (Thanks, BT).
I also went down a rabbit hole trying ‘converters’ ('Twas a load of bollocks). Luckily a smaller, but way better & more affordable ISP moved into the area before I genuinely contemplated swapping out my relic of a Master Socket that came with the property!
But if you are lucky to be able to have an ethernet port to access your WAN, you have quality options to choose from.
If you want something future-proofed and with some good benefits (Like OFDMA - Helps with battery life of AX-Compatible devices, like the Framework), then go for something 802.11ax, a personal one that’s not too crazy and offers a brilliant feature set (& range) I recommend to friends and family is the Asus AX68U. CustomPC magazine from the Pi Foundation have also covered routers in some of their past issues if you can dig them up!
Best Regards,
Varg
My DIY 1280p was delivered two hours ago!
I love this laptop! It took me all of 10 minutes to remove the back cover, insert the NVMe disk and RAM modules, and then another 5 minutes to get Pop_OS! installed.
The keyboard feels very nice to type on, the speakers are pretty good for a laptop, and compiling one of my large Rust projects takes only 1 minute and 33 seconds (compared to my desktop that has a Ryzen 5950X, which takes 50 seconds). I’m very impressed.
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huawei hg612, then you can use an ethernet WAN router Dlink also do standalone modems.
I’m lucky enough to be blessed to not have to use the DSL line now, had FTTP put in a few months ago and never looked back
Thank you, however, for your suggestions!
Best Regards,
Varg
You are indeed lucky, it’s never going to be available to me. The ridiculous thing where I live is that 1-2 miles in one direction there’s a village with full gigabit fibre, the same distance away in a different direction are houses that barely get 2mbit, and ADSL is actually faster than FTTC.
Might I direct you to the tale of this MadLad? I wonder if the same thing is replicatable over this side of the pond?
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Varg
it’s B4RN down the road, I’ve already been onto them, they aren’t interested. They’ve apparently gone from a community enterprise powered by volunteers to a full commercial operation that want money up front and dont accept volunteer labour anymore. They also told me point blank they have zero interest in supplying the village 800m from where I live.
I did find one local operation that would have provided me with wireless backed gigabit for the right price, which was >£50k, and with only 5 houses populated by mainly older people, that’s not happening.
Starlink looks interesting, but at £600+ up front and £90 a month, plus CGNAT, its not a cheap option.
Same Gotta wait till I get get home later To install the SSD and RAM.
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