Framework Laptop 12 pre-orders open next week

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At the end of our launch livestream last month, we teased Framework Laptop 12, a colorful little laptop that is the ultimate expression of our product philosophy. We received a ton of interest around this product, and we have a lot more to share on Framework Laptop 12… in exactly a week! We’re opening pre-orders on April 9th at 8am Pacific. That’s also when we’ll share the full specifications, pricing, and shipment timing. We have a hunch that the early batches are going to go very quickly, so you may want to set up your Framework account ahead of time. In the meantime, you can check out the hands-on video we just posted on our YouTube channel where we go deeper on the design decisions we made.

We know that a lot of you are eager for updates on Framework Laptop 13 and Framework Desktop too. We’re happy to share that we’ve started manufacturing ramp on the new Ryzen™ AI 300 Series-powered Framework Laptop 13, along with the new translucent Bezels and Expansion Cards. We expect first shipments to go out and press reviews to go live in mid-April. We have a lot of manufacturing capacity ready to work through the pre-order batches quickly.

On Framework Desktop, we’re in the DVT2 phase, which is the last development phase before we start production. This is the period in which we complete full validation, finalize firmware and software development, and go through certifications. We’re also making some design refinements throughout the product to improve performance, look and feel, and ease of repair. This includes improving overcurrent protection on internal headers, reducing fan and coil noise in the power supply, and adding visual indicators for the chassis fasteners used for Mainboard swaps. With this development build, we have a larger number of development units in this cycle that we’re sending out to Linux partners and open source AI developers to ensure that the software stack is robust and mature before we start shipping customer units.

Finally, these awesome products come from an equally awesome team! We have a new role open in the team that we expect many of you will be interested in: a Community Marketing Manager, to drive community initiatives and manage the various channels all of you are reading this on. You can apply to this and check our other roles on our careers page.

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Price? That’s an important part of the equation for me.

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Will Framework Laptop 12 have full Linux support at launch? Particularly for the stylus?

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When pre-orders open, on April 9th at 8am Pacific, is when these things might be answered.

Certainly it would be nice to know more ahead of time, so that one can have more time to consider everything together, but it doesn’t sound like we’ll get that this time around.

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The video has some nice insight on the build of the machine. It is exciting to see it be extra durable and that many of the lessons learned went into the development.

Shout out to whomever promoted the screwless connector for the 2230 NVME drive!

Looking forward to placing a pre-order for the new product.

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Thanks for sharing this info. I saw the pre-order starting date & time info at Framework’s Mastdon account and a mirror site of the Framework’s X account. For people’s convenience to see on their local timezone, the “April 9th at 8am Pacific” is 2025-04-09T15:00:00Z local time maybe. As a note, I used Dicsourse’s date / time feature, which shows the date and time in people’s local timezone by clicking the calendar icon (Insert date / time) on the menu on the edit page.

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I guess that Laptop 12 will have full Linux support at launch. There is the “Framework Laptop 12 / Linux” category on this forum.

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That subcategory is for all kinds of Linux discussions for Framework laptop 12 :slight_smile: we have matching one for all of our products.

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Yes, I can see the Linux sub category is for all of Framework’s products, including Laptop 13, 16 and Desktop. :slight_smile: I expect Framework will support specific Linux distributions, officially supported and community supported Linux distributions on Laptop 12 as well as Laptop 13, 16.

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Is screen / lid bounce still a thing with the FL12?
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Hope it takes the 64GB memory module (video says 48GB).

I’m keeping my eyes on this…the colourways are growing on me.

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Really not able to tell from that. Only movement strictly from touches and taps matter, not movement from purposely moving the screen. So only a single touch at most from that even qualifies.

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Yeah, I can’t really tell from the video… Looking forward to end-user reviews.