Introducing the new and upgraded Framework Laptop

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Hi
My argument is that consumers so often ‘blame’ the manufactures. Sure manufactureres could take more reponsibility for the rubbush they ultimatly create, but then the user can do by not buying in the first place.

All human corporeal activity consumes and leaves debris, to call that waste is just a business attitude.

I like the idea that there is less debris but it is 100% my responsibilty not to make it, not others to clean up after me, though they do and try and profit from it.

I’ll keep my 11gen for as long as I can, I hate to this what I am going to do with it when it’s a load of rubbish. Oh yes, get someone else to deal with it. Another embarrasment I have to look forward too. So yes if frameowrk take it off my hands I may feel as though I am not alone and sleep better :rofl:

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Nice work! Quite happy where I am at the moment performance wise. I’ll maybe look this time next year and pick up a 12th gen board someone is offloading…

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If you decide not to cancel and upgrade, you should contact support and ask if they can refund part of the price you paid. Now that the 12th Gen board has been released, the 11th Gen boards are cheaper, and support has refunded the price difference to people who received their order within (I think) 30 days prior to the new launch.

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Congrats on the launch! I’m incredibly impressed with the upgrade kits. It’s the complete opposite of planned obsolescence! I was awestruck when I saw it.

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Can you please elaborate on these alternatives? For me the hinges are also not stiff enough.

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Hi
Not enought time to search right now but I did find this

Will update later if I find the posts

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I dont have the 11th gen hardware to have some kind of baseline of its capabilities on my head. I have no idea of what kind games (& at what fidelity) I could play with this hardware.

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As a linux person I wish Framework offered a keyboard without the lame windows logo on the Super button.

I pre-ordered the new DIY, 12th gen version last night. This will be my first framework device. Sadly I didnt pre-order it in time to make it with Batch 1 that ships in July. Really looking forward to my new laptop in August.

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Here’s a detailed review with benchmarks of the 11th gen Iris Xe - the 12th gen will be identical, just a little faster for the Core i7s.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Tiger-Lake-U-Xe-Graphics-G7-96EUs-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.462145.0.html

In short, this integrated graphics is much better than it used to be and you can play games on it. It’s no dedicated GPU, of course, and make sure you have dual-channel memory (two matched sticks).

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True, I shouldn’t upgrade now then. Looking back, maybe I shouldn’t have supported Framework as early as an early adopter.

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I’m pretty disappointed that you came out with a new Intel mainboard before providing an AMD one. At this point I’m pretty close to selling off my framework and buying a replacement from another vendor. Intel sucks at graphics and battery life, two things that are important for me. Will we get an AMD edition soon?

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I understand your frustration but there are reasons for this and good ones too. The easiest explanation is that Intel is a much larger company and is able to provide much more engineering support than AMD when designing new boards so if you only have the money to design one new board that means Intel

Ryzen 6000 is also DDR5 only, so to please possible new customers with new AMD products, they would invariably annoy some established customers with DDR4 boards that want to upgrade and re-use old parts(in-line with Framework’s established design principles)

DDR5 is also VERY expensive at the moment so that would also raise the price of their laptops, something no business wants to do and Framework being small is much less capable of absorbing cost increases like that

TBH, I wasn’t expecting Alder Lake for at least another 2 months (which would’ve annoyed me) so I would expect Ryzen boards to pop up in 6 months or so, a year at most

I understand your frustration, I felt like I was waiting forever for Alder Lake but until Framework gets bigger, there will always be a delay between the bigger players and Framework

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Community benchmarks this way: Gamework (community benchmarks)

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e-sports games like CS:GO, Overwatch, Dota 2, etc you can expect to play at 1080p at Medium or even High settings. The panel is limited to 60hz anyways so target that frame rate, slower paced games like Oxygen Not Included or Civilization you can crank the settings up because the frame rate dips won’t be noticeable

With FSR 2.0 launching, you can expect to utilize that to increase frame rates even more. It’s an iGPU, keep your expectations in check and you’ll be pleasantly surprised, I can truthfully say that the games I expected to run on an older iGPU ran excellently (Democracy 4, FTL, Oxygen Not Included)

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Just saw a review from Dave2D on the new Asus Flow X16 …looks really good.
Ryzen 6900HS, 2-in-1, touch & pen input support, 2 DDR5 DIMM slots, 2 NVMe slots, dGPU, 90Wh battery, QHD 16:10 100% DCI-P3 165Hz peak 1,100 nits mini LED panel… It checks a lot of boxes.

…and it doesn’t look gamery at all.

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@Ross said: “As a linux person I wish Framework offered a keyboard without the lame windows logo on the Super button”
I guess it wouldn’t hurt to print their own Framework symbol instead of the Windows symbol in the keyboard. I would say it is something to consider (and quite simple to change - for future iterations of the keyboard only).
What we don’t know is if somebody associated with the company can confirm or deny IF this possibility is concrete or not.

@rn1234 said: “Intel sucks at graphics and battery life”
Come on… It’s not quite like that… You’re being too strict… RDN2 is indeed much better than Iris Xe, but the later is no slouch either… In terms of battery life, 11th gen Intel is really awesome (on the U series) and 12th gen has still the need to prove itself, but with more optimizations on Win11 and Linux, it is not hard to say that it will probably get there. Besides that, in terms of market, AMD 6000 U series is so rare, almost impossible to get. The only thing lacking on 11th gen Intel was multicore performance; and 12th gen is coming through to remedy exactly that.

@GhostLegion “…until Framework gets bigger, there will always be a delay between the bigger players and Framework.”
Very wise words. I fully agree with you. It is hard to contain our expectations sometimes, but in the specific case of Framework, it is the right thing to do… and, so far, they have delivered big time. I think we can expect them to continue on this path; patience is the name of the game here.

@A_Fan said: “Just saw a review from Dave2D on the new Asus Flow X16...”
Well, I don’t want to be too harsh here (sorry), but in all honesty, if any of us are willing to "jump category" there is really a myriad of options out there.

What Framework offers that is quite Unique is really what’s hard (almost impossible) to find on other laptops:

  • some of the best quality reliable components on “thin and light” laptops available on the market;
  • simple (and relatively affordable) upgrade path;
  • easily available and very reasonably priced spare parts for ALL components;
  • concrete and simple possibility of reuse of old MB/Processor combo;

What we expect in this new 12th gen. Intel P series is that besides all that, it now will also offer:

  • a very very good performance (multicore, on heavy loads)

Just as an example, Asus G14 is one of the best machines I ever seen, but it does not give you many of the things on the list up there and it comes with a horrible MediaTek WiFi card, soldered RAM on one slot (not upgradable or even exchangeable if it gets some defect), no choice of storage size, brand, speed, generation, etc, an incredibly expensive and heavy power brick, a somewhat incomplete keyboard layout, etc.
It is easy to see that even the best of the best machines have some problems…

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Can I suggest to also put a picture of the front of the cover here: Framework | Top Cover (CNC) ?

The old top cover had such a picture and I think it helps quite a bit to see, what you are dealing with. (I.e. is there even a cog on the front?)

Thank you!

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I thought that was a representation of a torx screw head :slight_smile:

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I guess that is my KDE precondition showing ;3

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