Making The Framework Laptop 16 Black (Project Blackwork Part 1)

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Note that will hopefully be relevant: the FW16’s top cover is aluminum but the bottom cover is magnesium alloy.

Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive - Enclosure

[Framework Laptop 16 Bottom Cover] The Framework Laptop 16 is extremely rigid and durable, while also being surprisingly light and thin through use of a combination of magnesium alloy and machined aluminum parts for the enclosure. The laptop is under 18mm thick, which is unusually slim for a 16” high-performance, upgradeable system. If you choose to add discrete graphics using a Graphics Module, the back section of the laptop extends to just under 21mm thick, enabling much higher thermal capac…

The top cover is CNC machined while the bottom cover is thixomolded.

Maybe none of this is relevant but it could mean that a shop will want to treat the top cover and the bottom cover differently.