Better flex than brittle, ever notice the wings when in an airliner?
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I suggest all the people bothered by the flex to immediately cancel their preorder and wait for a fix from Framework. Soooo, I would receive mine earlier ā¦ Thank you for your cooperation ! 
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Thatās what I did.
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Perfect, thank you.
Unironically though, I hope they incorporate those fixes before Batch 5 ships, as itāll make up for me missing pre-orders by a few hours and waiting 2 months extra because of thatā¦
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In the iFixit video, they mentioned it takes 4 screws to take the display panel out. For something this big, wouldnāt more mounting points help with rigidity?
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Not in your back yard!!
ā¦More than 4 fixing points will not necessarily reduce twisting. Itās more about the casting that houses the screen, and itās stiffness ( independent to the screen ). But thatās just the Industrial Designer in me speakingā¦ Iāll know more when I get mine in batch 6
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I disagree. Making the screen act more like an integral structural part will help with rigidity.
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But do you really want to ADD stresses to the most fragile component in the assembly?
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What about something like these: https://www.tesa.com/en/consumer/mounting-hanging-sms/adhesive-strip-powerstrips
That could reduce flex by removing relative motion between lid and display and be removable with careful placement. There might be positions where there is enough clearance for the half mm thickness of the strips.
Another way could be something like gummy glue. That should be removable by cutting through it with a string.
I didnāt try any of this, my 13 is sturdy enough for me.
The FW13 already uses that type of adhesive strips to attach the screen to its mounting brackets. Unofficial Guide to Aftermarket LCD Replacement
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A bare laptop display barely has any rigidity of itself, they are pretty soft.
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I agree, screens are the very soft and delicate to handle for flexing resistance. but a screen is resistant in tension. By glueing it or by adding more mounting point the screen will reduce flex by limiting its compression/tension. Remember that for something to flex, out outer surface/layer will need to either compress or stretch.
I agree that on principale, one would not want to add sttress to a fragile component. But in certain direction such as tension/conpression the display will be resistant. I am more tempted to look at imperial evidence with all laptops being sold today having a glued screen.
You could put some tensile tension on display component, the glue would use some of that, but compression will super easily destroy the display.
I suspect most of the strength comes from the bezel being hard-mounted to the back via glue (or something) forming a double-C box structure which is known for being relatively rigid. or where the display is mounted on the back of glass which is significantly stronger (which is why you canāt get a non-gloss mac for example)
Reading all these Lupin threads about the screen flexā¦ I donāt understand how I could live with flexing screens all these years. This, and the one finger screen opening. One thread is enough. Why multiple threads with the same topic?
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Because he is trolling ???
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Maybe. Donāt know.
Thatās how I interpreted it. Their posts throughout this forum have been nitpicky and negativeā¦could be a genuine wanting to get things pointed out in reviews addressed, but the volume and tone of the posts lead me to interpret as trolling.
It I am interpreting it wrong, apologiesā¦but that is how I see it.
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Possible. Iāve yet to see a post from them that is positive in tone or content.
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