We’ve been hinting that this year is going to be huge, and we’re ready to share why… in two weeks on Feb 25th, at our Framework (2nd Gen) Event! We’re holding this launch event live in San Francisco and streaming to our YouTube channel at 10:30am Pacific that day. You can sign up now to get notified when the stream starts. The last time we held a live launch event was in March 2023, when we unveiled Framework Laptop 16 and two new versions of Framework Laptop 13. It’s been amazing seeing the interest in these products and the incredible ways the community has been using and extending on them. We’ve been heads down working for the last two years on an even bigger set of announcements.
For this event, in addition to bringing in press and partners, we’re opening a pool of invites to the Framework Community to attend the event in person, meet the team, and get hands on with our newest products. If you’re a current Framework fan and are in the San Francisco area (or are able to handle your own travel to us), you can apply to attend in this sign-up form. We expect we’ll see a lot more interest than we have available seats in our venue, so we’ll likely need to downselect from applicants.
We will be opening pre-orders on at least one new item that day, so if you’re in the market for repairable, upgradeable, long-lasting consumer electronics products, you may want to create an account ahead of time to be ready. We’ve scaled up our e-commerce infrastructure massively, but we expect the site will still be under heavy load.
Five years in, we’re confident that we’re on a fast path to achieving our mission to remake consumer electronics. We’re eager to continue supporting and scaling the ecosystems around our current products, and we’re ready to bring this mission and product philosophy to even more of the world, one category at a time. It’s going to be an awesome day, and all of us in the Framework team can’t wait for you to see what we’ve been working on!
For a hint at what we’ll be announcing, head to the event page.
Can someone upload a screenshot of the event page in English? For me it always shows up in German which may or may not make it harder to decipher the hints.
Oh hi! We’ve been working on something colourful or rolling? Flexible, something electric, and something worthy of pc, retro gaming and ?. Find out live of Feb 25th etc
I’m taking that to mean a foldable with a more powerful gpu, but I’m not certain
Thinking about it a bit more, I’m pretty sure the first one is a new (second generation) case for the FW13 that comes in multiple colors and can fold between laptop mode and tablet mode. That would also explain why we can now buy empty FW13 cases: they’re clearing out old stock that will be replaced soon.
I’m really hoping the lightning means they are releasing a powerbank based on the framework battery (that they teased as a potential product last event)
Yoga is a refined 13" 2 in 1 chassis. Touchscreen courtesy of the new oled screen. As part of the focus on portability, maybe lpcamm2 for improved battery life?
Gaming spaghetti? Is that a Source game reference (Steam deck?)
the image is also titled “fan party”, and we have several community portable/Framedecks already, which is interesting.
Are the numbers a hint as well? the patterning reminds me of subpixel hinting. 4K screen for the 16, or maybe an OLED option for something?
As others have said, new colorful shells at long last that are also as flexible as an X1 Carbon Yoga and something to do w/ Thunderbolt. Two colors are the samples seen in the “2” and “5”: Lilac and Clementine.
This year is also supposed to be the year of Linux SteamOS w/ multiple OEMs launching devices with it and closed with Valve launching Index 2.0… and Framework has advertised for Steam Deck hardware parts in the past so… Framework Deck that will have everyone eating good
You simply can not fathom how angry this comment made me because I realized halfway through that it’s AI slop.
Credit where Credit is due - you did tell us it was AI generated, but still.
I’m with BusyBoredom on this one, except I think the color wheel could also be laptop shells matching the colors of the expansion cards.
” sounds more synonomous ‘something fast’ than something related to power, but that’s just me.