I pre-ordered early enough to get into batch 2, then remembered I shouldn’t pre-order things, and I couldn’t decide on the CPU anyway.
So now I’m here. 
I ended up choosing the i3. RAM, SSD, and PSU will be choosen from what I have laying around, and I’ll probably install Bluefin or something to that effect.
I have pre-ordered a framework 12 as well. Lavendar, i5, 16GB DDR5 and 1TB SN770M. I use a framework 16, but this framework 12 will be for my younger sister that is starting into high school.
I have been a long-time lurker, reading the forum and reddit daily and watching all the great community videos. As of yesterday, I am proud to be part of the batch 10 preorders, and I can’t wait!
I will be using my Framework 12 i3 in black to remotely connect to my main setup for coding and markdown editing, drawing and writing thoughts and probably streaming some media.
Maybe we can expect the pen to be shipped along with our batch…
I preordered a grey one, i5, 16gb and 500 gb SSD. I run my entire business on a chuwi minibook which I love, but I am concerned about longevity. I will be using mine to keep my website and social media, do emails and office work, some light CAD, reading, conference calling and playing with lightweight LLMs.
I am used to touchscreens from using surface devices for many years, so I will be just using it for interfacing, reading, signing documents, maybe taking a few notes here and there. If ever Shapr3D makes it to Linux, it will use it to do some 3D modelling as well. For now I have an old surface pen which I think will do just fine. Later, I might buy a stylus.
I wanted to buy a green one for my wife but that will come later. As my business expands, I plan to run the business on frameworks and Fedora only.
Hi there fellow batch 10ers. This will be my first Framework and my first 2in1. I ordered a sage i5. I don’t want my phone to be a source of entertainment or boredom relief anymore, so this will be that replacement.
I’m enjoying my i3; 8 threads is plenty.
I couldn’t decide for the longest time which CPU option to pick, but I then realised the i5 doesn’t really make sense for me. The price increase isn’t at all worth it considering I have a more powerful machine to use at home. WIth the i3, it’ll be around 750€ total once I factor in the RAM and SSD, which is still alright.
There are several other companies offering custom laptops (probably Clevo / Sager) with similar chips, and there the i5 upgrade costs half as much or less than here. But those laptops miss the 2-in-1, the bouncy chassis, and the localised keyboard.
Funny, I’m also coming from a Minibook. I like the idea, but the actual machine is… not great. Mine runs much slower than my other N100 computer, maybe I should have a go at repasting.
What’s your usecase?
yeah…. i also thought about the i3 but This will be the most powerful computer I will have. Plus I felt compelled to test performance against the N100. My minibook runs perfectly fine on fedora 42… much better than my surface pro 8.
The biggest difference between the i3 and the i5 is the iGPU; I won’t miss the two additional efficiency cores very much.
My FW12 is for hobby programming mostly, but light gaming isn’t off the table. I played SOASE2 yesterday and it worked great.
I think the i5 has 4 more cores, it’s like having an extra N100 glued to the i3. I’m still not sure it’s necessarily worth it (for me at least).
You’re right, I was mistaken, so 4 extra efficiency cores; I don’t see the point.
Sounds fair enough. I recently installed Bluefin on my Minibook, but I haven’t had much time to use it yet. Maybe you can keep the minibook as a backup or as a sort of home server! If yours works fine then it should be a reasonably capable little machine.
I think the 12 should work for you very well. From what I hear, the keyboard is quite nice, which I assume is important for you as well.
Ye! I was planning to make a little home server indeed. Looking forward to that.
I’m bummed the keyboard is not backlit, tho. I do quite enjoy these things…
Batch 10! Been eying a Framework laptop for quite a while and finally decided to go for it with the 12! Also picked the i3 to use as a travel laptop to remote to my main setup, should be plenty for light computing tasks.
Hoping that the stylus would be available by the time this batch ships, I’d really love to have a matching stylus for it…
I am batch 10 as well, have been eyeing FW since the first 13 series came out. Picked the FW 12 to replace my old Lenovo yogabook tablet. Because after 10ish years it became slow on win 10, and it charges via micro USB on 15V. So having something a bit more modular (with linux support) is a nice to have. Picked the i5 version to have just a bit more power for some light gaming and OBS workloads. But it is going to be primairly my on the go writing laptop.
Probably going to Ubuntu or mint as OS, through I wonder since batch 7,8,9 are not shipped yet, when the expected shipment date of batch 10 is.
Damn that Yogabook is a dino
what can I say, it’s an unique tablet/computer that I really enjoyed using and I never seen anything compairable too. but yeah I do like to keep my devices around for quite some time.
LMAO, love seeing a Yogabook described as a “dino”.
I finally decided to get in on a batch 10 pre-order with the hopes that the FW12 will be a good replacement for my Thinkpad X230t 