Hey, is anyone noticing their paint chipping during regular normal use where you aren’t scratching the laptop at all? Only place I know where my 16 would be scratched is the TP module due to my watch, but there’s no scratches. Yet looking at the corners and some areas where the display makes contact with the frame when closed, there’s these marks that like, wont go away. Anyone else experiencing this? Is this normal?
Pictures perhaps?
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I am pretty sure the F16 is just aluminum and plastic with no paint present. I have a small bit of what I think you are reporting on one side, a black smudge on the aluminum next to the caps lock key. I assume it is just plastic from the monitor bezel.
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Ditto, I also have paint chipping. Not a particular issue but it does nothing to alleviate the other “first generation issues” I’m having with mine.
Sorry, forgot to check this for a while. let me get some pictures up
Sorry, my phone isnt focussing so the photos might take some time 
@Flex4249 I had a similar problem Bottom Cover on 16" - Started to "fade" where I rest my hand
The top and bottom of the Laptop 16 are different metals: the bottom is magnesium for strength, while the top is aluminium for lightness. One of those is painted to match the color of the other, but I don’t recall which.
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Magnesium is darker and less uniform-looking, so normally it gets painted.
I also remember from MS Surface days that they said that even though magnesium is denser, it still provides better rigidity for the same weight of material than aluminum. I think, aluminum is easier to work with than magnesium (you have to cast magnesium as it is brittle and wouldn’t survive a sheet form), plus maybe aliminum can hold itself easier at thicknesses lower than some threshold, although the latter is my pure conjecture, I am in no way an expert.
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Sorry about the delays, my old phone just didn’t have the storage to take pics… I got these though if anyone still cares.
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ive had that happen to me as well. the smaller chip in the left corner (that is closest to the latch) looks like one that came in manufacturing (i got two of those on the right of my laptop. they are now the least noticeable)
i personally find the whole issue slightly annoying but tolerable.
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After couple months it seems mine is also starting a small chip going.
But it is not visible with a naked eye. Let’s see how it looks in half a year 
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I bumped into a wall several times carrying the laptop in the dark and this is the result so far. Is the painting process documented somewhere?
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So, after a year and two days the paint chipping looks much worse.
My laptop mostly stays on the desk. When I take it with me, I put it into a laptop pocket in my backpack which is padded, and I don’t put anything else in there. So, I’d consider this finish pretty delicate then.
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I take my laptop to college daily and the wear and tear of putting it in the bag has taken toll on the paint that is applied on the magnesium bottom attached are photos.
I got the laptop in February 2025. As can be seen in the photos the friction even polished the magnesium on the corner after the paint rubbed off.
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And here I thought that thing was made of unpainted aluminum.
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Interesting that your first photo shows that the magnesium is shiny, but what we’re seeing - the darker thing - is not magnesium, but something like a primer on top of the magnesium which then the paint is applied on top of.
That primer looks fine by itself. Framework, maybe consider giving us an option for a thicker coat of that so that wear doesn’t have as pronounced of an effect on the looks? 
(But I guess, Framework wanted the aluminum expansion cards to not look out of place in the laptop… Still, maybe now that the colorful 12”-rs are here we’re going to be fine with some color non-uniformity)
Yea, would be great, as an update to mine well, I don’t have any pictures of it but it has gotten noticably worse on corners, has a few scratches here and there that didn’t chip paint though. All paint chipping/issues mostly on the left side of the keyboard deck, some of it made its way to the right side but that’s most of it
Did anyone find a specific touch up paint that blends well with the OEM paint used?
I asked them a month ago and it’s a kind of industrial secret, they can’t tell us anything about it and that’s not cool 