Now in stock and how a Framework Laptop gets from the factory to you

[Bluto]

Thanks for the update. I’m really hoping mine ships this week. I really like to get my new system and get productive with it. Thank you for the information.

[Bluto]

@Twistgibber My laptop is now shipped. Thank you very much for the updates. I appreciate it. FedEx says I should get mine next Friday.

[anarcat]

@TheTwistgibber

Yet another update this Thanksgiving Day. For @Bluto and others still waiting for shipment, we were able to get the Ethernet Expansion Cards in stock and working through the remaining backorders. Some shipped out last night and the remaining will ship out tonight (Taiwan time).

Oh wait what? Ethernet expansion cards are coming back in stock? Or is that just for pending orders? Because the website still says “out of stock” here…

In any case, great news!

[anarcat]

@TheTwistgibber

You may have noticed by this point that we haven’t been running time-based promotions, even for major retail holidays like Black Friday. In fact, we don’t have a coupon or promo field on our website at all. Our philosophy is that we don’t want to entice you to buy electronic products seasonally when you may or may not need them and by the same token hold off on purchasing in hopes of a future sale. Instead, we want to keep pricing stable and predictable and encourage you to pick up a product, replacement part, or upgrade module when you actually do need it. When we release new versions of a product or module, we discount older versions until we run out of stock. When we have product returns, we refurbish them and sell them at a lower price than new. We believe this is a better way to build and sell products, and we hope you do too.

Also, I have to say: kudos to the Framework team on that. This is just outstanding: in this world of consumerism and just running as fast as we can towards the wall, it’s really refreshing to hear people actually care about that stuff.

Keep on the good work!

[TheTwistgibber]

@anarcat

Oh wait what? Ethernet expansion cards are coming back in stock? Or is that just for pending orders? Because the website still says “out of stock” here…

In any case, great news!

They are back in stock as of this morning! You can pick one up now!

[Bluto]

My Framework Laptop arrived today. Tomorrow, I am going cold turkey off of apple mac os and using Linux (which is not a system shock for me.)

Laptop works great. Very nice keyboard.

[Never-Sett1e]

Is it possible to buy one directly from the factory（avoid the long shipping process）. (Currently in Taiwan, near the factory)

[Morpheus636]

@Never-Sett1e

Is it possible to buy one directly from the factory（avoid the long shipping process）. (Currently in Taiwan, near the factory)

Taiwan is not currently a supported region, but it was recently announced that it will be rolled out later this year. I’m not sure what you mean when you say “directly from he factory”, can you explain?

[Never-Sett1e]

@Morpheus636

Taiwan is not currently a supported region, but it was recently announced that it will be rolled out later this year. I’m not sure what you mean when you say “directly from he factory”, can you explain?

Sorry for my confusing words. Any methods that doesn’t need the long shipping process to get the framework laptop will do.

Anyway, glad to hear that Taiwan is finally going to be one of the supported region soon, guess i shell wait till late this year then (new framework laptop 16 is not release yet).
It’s quite annoying waiting for a product produced locally to be delivered before shipped aboard first…

[Morpheus636]

@Never-Sett1e

Any methods that doesn’t need the long shipping process to get the framework laptop will do.

If you mean the shipping itself, that’s not a very long process typically. We don’t know how shipping will be handled for Taiwan yet, but it’s typically less than a week for the rest of the world, and I suspect Taiwan will be no different on that front. If you mean the pre-order process, which can be weeks or months, then no, there’s no way to bypass it. Framework doesn’t offer in-person retail sales and has said that they don’t plan to do so any time in the near future.