Intel 12th Gen Batch 4 guild

[Cipher]

It arrived today
Time to set it up

[Elmo]

Hooray I got the preparing for shipping email today.

[Paddler]

@Paddler

Just got my “Preparing to ship” email.

Which was confusing as I missed the “Batch shipping this month email”…

And now just got the payment complete email… it’s all getting closer…

Which is good because my 6yo old Dell Precision has now been running for 10hrs doing some data work in R for me… the main use case for a higher spec processor and 32GB of RAM for me.

[Elmo]

@Paddler You and me both. Looking forward to the new laptop.

[Cipher]

@Cipher

Time to set it up

Spent all my free time today getting things up and running, so far, all is good. Really liking my new laptop.
I’m seeing temps around 40C mostly. Fans ramped up alot in bios settings for some reason, but where quiet most of the time, strange behavior.

@mjog

working out how to force apps to use Wayland rather than X.

Do share any useful resources you may find on this.

[Second_Coming]

@Cipher

Fans ramped up alot in bios settings for some reason, but where quiet most of the time, strange behavior

See here for an explanation:

11th Gen BIOS 3.09 Beta release

It is both upgraded and restarted. Unless your custom fan curve was implemented by way of reflashing the EC, any reboot had the potential to reset them. FWIW, with this EC design it is still running the old version while it is being upgraded. The code is copied to and executed from RAM, and is only reloaded from flash on reset. Even so, lower power states are disabled in preboot.

[Paddler]

@Paddler

And now just got the payment complete email… it’s all getting closer…

And now the shipping email!

Seems to be some of the process has sped up looking at the spreadsheet - a fair few have been getting 1 day or less between stages now.

[Maddison]

Oh, I hope that means I will be getting my shipping email? I woke up this morning to the payment complete email

[Cipher]

@Second_Coming thanks for pointing that out, I will look into the fan curve soon.

@Paddler

Seems to be some of the process has sped up looking at the spreadsheet

Definitely, I didn’t expect mine to ship to me in under 3 days, Praise the Logistics team, these guys are doing awesome work.

[JonathanFV]

Am I the only Canadian on here who saw their shipped Framework go from Taiwan to Anchorage to Winnipeg to… France?! Initially, FedEx was projecting that I would receive the parcel on the 19th. Two days later, and it went from Winnipeg to France…

Edit: it’s back in North America now. Pheww. Went from France to Newark, and then to Memphis. What an odyssey.

[vl_dang]

@Cipher

Definitely, I didn’t expect mine to ship to me in under 3 days, Praise the Logistics team, these guys are doing awesome work.

Same for me. 2 days shipping, it’s just damn impressive.

[Ruzgfpegk]

Maybe you’re among the lucky ones: I have seen no change on my order in 9 days.
But the month is not yet over so I can’t complain.

[yatil]

FWIW, I pre-ordered October 5 and nothing so far… It looks to me like DIY modes ship much quicker than built ones.

[alexcannas]

Finally my UK-bound order from the 1st of October has shipped!! It left Taiwan yesterday and has arrived this morning in Paris, France. Estimated delivery is Wednesday, but who knows if I am lucky and get it earlier…

[Paddler]

In coming today!

Should be at the office by about 11am… which is great… but I’m not in the office today…

However, I will make an exception, and timing works great as I can then set this old Dell off to do some number crunching for me that will take time and use the FW to do the writing on.

[JonathanFV]

Just received mine today! It was shipped on the 14th, but Fedex made it go through very strange detours. I installed my own SSD and RAM in it, and I’m typing from it right now. Installing Linux Mint went very quickly, but I still have a lot of stuff to setup. Very happy with the general feel of the laptop. To those curious, this is the path that it took to get to me:

1. Ta Yuan, Taiwan
2. Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong
3. Anchorage, Alaska
4. Memphis, Tennessee
5. Reno, Nevada
6. Memphis, Tennessee (back again)
7. Winnipeg, Manitoba (cleared customs)
8. Roissy, France
9. Newark, New Jersey
10. Memphis, Tennessee (and again)
11. Winnipeg (at this point I was really hoping it wouldn’t be shipped to France again)
12. Vancouver, British-Columbia (FINALLY)
13. Richmond, British-Columbia
14. DELIVERED!

[Paddler]

@Paddler

In coming today!

Should be at the office by about 11am… which is great… but I’m not in the office today…

However, I will make an exception, and timing works great as I can then set this old Dell off to do some number crunching for me that will take time and use the FW to do the writing on.

Well, it was at the office by 9:15, so I made it in about an hour later. Got home, and within 10mins had it ready to start up (fitting RAM and SSD).

[Elmo]

Got mine today as well. I wonder what I will do tonight…

Edit: Spent time installing tripleboot of Xubuntu, Fedora and Pop. I think Fedora will be the daily driver but time will tell.

[Tom3]

Ours arrived today,
DIY 12th gen i5 etc,

For anyone interested in using theirs as a docked workstation/gaming box, we have ours working with a Sapphire Gearbox 500 (w/included AMD 6600 xt) eGPU enclosure to a 1440p monitor. Worked almost right off the bat, no problems with drivers and whatnot.

[PDXTabs]

I received mine! Over the weekend I got it all setup to my liking. DIY with 32GB of RAM, 2TB Samsung 980 Pro, 2x USB-C, 2x USB-A, and Kubuntu 22.04 running kernel 5.19.17.

So far I’m very happy. I write software full time and this i5-1240P is noticeably faster than the i5-10210U in my first gen ThinkPad T14. Both the build quality and the keyboard are better than I was expecting.