This thread is for people who pre-ordered the Framework Laptop 12 Core Series 3 as Batch 2 to discuss something. Historically, there were such threads on this forum such as these Laptop 12 Intel 13th Gen’s guild threads. If you don’t see your Laptop 12 Core Series 3 Batch N thread, I would recommend you to create the “FW12 Core Series 3 Batch N Guild” thread newly!
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Haha, I just ordered the same thing. I wonder who got all the batch 1 though.
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Yup, it seems to me that Core 5 320 is the cost-effective choice. I needed to investigate a little to justify purchasing this one.
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I’m also in for Batch 2 for Core 5 320 as well, took me a long time to decide whether I wanted core 3 or 5 so I missed batch 1. Wonder what the cutoff was for that.
Anyone know if there will be a coolermaster or other mainboard case for it so we can use our old board as a mini pc?
I ordered a Gen1 12 on Sunday and took a few hours to think about it after seeing the announcement. Decided to get in the Core 5 batch 2 and going to see if support can cancel my gen 1 order. I think I can make my crappy Dell Latitude last a little longer right?
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Awesome, I’m excited now! Thank you for sharing.
Does anyone know if I can just pop my current ssd in the new motherboard or do I have to wipe it? I am using Fedora 44 and plan to continue to do so.
(No I obviously don’t have it yet, but I am excited) 
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@Jo_Hannes Yes, you can continue to use the OS that you are currently using, and you don’t need to reinstall your OS on SSD. I have never seen such a situation.
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Just got the email that they’re preparing batch 2!
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Same here
Same!
Also got my email, but it just says “October 16th Pacific time” is there supposed to be an actual time there?
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No, they’re just specifying that is that day as of Pacific Time, since there’s a lot of variation with when each day begins across time zones.
Tangentially related fun fact just cuz I find it super interesting: the biggest time difference between two locations globally is actually 26 hours due to how irregular some of the time zones are.
I’ve heard on cruise ships sometimes you can skip a day.
But oddly my card was charged today, which is definitely not the 16th.
Yeah, my card was charged yesterday on 15th October too. I expected it was on 16th.
Just got my shipping confirmation!
Edit: no I didn’t 
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Wow, so Batches 1 and 2 are shipping simultaneously - interesting!
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It’s so interesting that batches one and two are basically going on simultaneously.
Edit: Lol, looks like @cknasaboy and I thought the same thing. I didn’t see his post pop up until after I posted mine.
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