and BYO storage, WiFi, and RAM.
I initially intended on running Windows 10 or 11 since I’ve used Windows all my life, but now I’m using Pop!_OS and I love it.
This video was a huge inspiration for leaving Windows. Between forcing Edge on its users, only allowing Microsoft widgets like MSN, and pre-installing Teams, I just grew tired of Microsoft’s antics.
Ordered today (yes I know, a bit behind on the uptake!) for the October batch:
DIY Edition:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7
WiFi: Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX210 No vPro®
BYO everything else (salvaged from old laptop): 2x16gB DDR4-2666, 1TB Samsung 970 Evo+
3 USB-C
1 USB-A
I have to say that even though I just ordered today, being patient is going to be TOUGH! Super excited about the concept of this machine, and very excited to put it together.
I’ll be installing Arch on it when it comes (btw). I’ve ditched Windows for Linux about a year ago and don’t think i’ll be turning back. Even without the Microsoft Office suite, i’ve managed to find solutions to all my workflow needs in Linux. I am very much looking forward to contributing to the Arch community on Framework.
Finally, a new thread to check several times a day while waiting for my confirmation email! Ordered an i5-1135G7 model with Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210 No vPro, a BYO 2x8 DDR4-3200 G.Skill kit, and a 500GB SK Hynix M.2 on September 17th. Going to finally try running Linux on something for daily use and install Mint when it finally arrives. I’m excited to wait with y’all, hopefully for not too much longer!
Batch 4, ordered Sept. 8th, bouncing between “Iwantthatgimmenow!” and “Framewhatnow?”:
i7-1165G7
2x USB-C Ports
1x USB-A Port
1x 1TB Drive
Meant to replace my main machine, a 2017 Dell Precision 5510 that died on a super-humid Atlanta day (blink code might indicate a fried mobo, can’t find a replacement on the cheap). Originally looked at getting a 2021 Dell, pivoted when I learned I could avoid past mistakes and buy a system designed for easy broken/outdated subsystem replacing! I’m entertaining the idea of eventually fitting a Framework mainboard into the Precision 5510 shell, too, if I can get it to talk to the keyboard, trackpad, and monitor…
That said, I’m scavenging the SSD, RAM, and WiFi modules out of the Precision 5510. My second monitor uses USB-C. Unsure what I’ll use the 1TB drive for. Work requires that I run Win10, which I’ll install alongside Debian+GNOME.
My wish list includes a black interior to the laptop, a 15" (or even 17") monitor, a 360° hinge, a larger battery, and faster delivery, though obviously none of those were dealbreakers. Excited to see what new expansion cards come out, and, well, just generally where this company and idea are heading. So glad they’re pulling it off!
Thrilled with the expansion card system, though it would’ve been great if cards could occupy more than one slot (e.g. set the guiderail through the top of the card, no laptop material separating slots, 4 (or perhaps 6 or 8 if possible) USB-C slots per side, and set the size of a single slot to the minimum needed for, say, a USB-A card). I’ve already printed an enclosure and shoved in a Serpente R2 and a 22-pin Berg header so’s I’ll have a microcontroller expansion card on Day 1 I’ll post a how-to thread on these forums once I have my laptop in hand and can validate the design… Iwantthatgimmenow!!!
Good thing you started this thread @AdamIsrael, because if you didn’t, I was going to! Also because there’s even a batch 5 thread.
Ordered September 5th. Batch 4 for me:
Core i7-1165G7
2 X 8GB RAM (I could have saved $30 buying separately but I only know that now, it needs DDR4-3200 native with no XMP)
Omitted SSD, I found a 1TB WD SN850 at a subtantially lower price separately.
AX210 no vPro. It was a great price.
Original power adapter
2 X USB-C expansion cards
2 X USB-A expansion cards
When they ask I may omit the RAM and power supply in favour of getting my own RAM and this charger. Hope that won’t delay the order.
Been counting the days to October lol
I5 1135g7
Byo 16gb ram
Byo 500gb ssd
Byo wifi6
2x usb c
2x usb a
1x hdmi
Like apparently quite a few people, I was gonna run windows, but win11 pushed me to Linux, gonna run pop! Os
Am I going to have problems with the HiDPI display in Gnome? I’ve avoided HiDPI for years. Life is a lot easier when I don’t have to deal with scaling issues. Maybe things have gotten better. (Oh, crap. This is bad.)
Update
Ok, I bailed. Seems like the HiDPI situation in Linux is still bad. I don’t have time to tinker these days. Just gonna go with a regular DPI display from elsewhere. Enjoy my spot.
I’m also waiting patiently for batch 4 to ship. The relatively shoddy repair work I’ve done to my T480 finally failed and now the NVMe storage controller no longer works. Might as well get a Framework laptop so I thought.
Ordered August 6th. been a long wait, and it looks like I was about the earliest order that got bounced to batch 4 for the i5.
Original order (August 6):
DIY Kit
i5 1135G7
1 x 8GB RAM
SN750 SSD (500GB)
Non-vPro WiFI
2 x USB-C
1 x USB-A
1 x HDMI
1 x DP
emailed support a few weeks later, got another 8GB RAM added on Aug 23, then emailed again September 9 to add an additional USB-A and a MicroSD card reader (since it looks like the marketpalce wasn’t going up any time soon)
I have one day until I can start asking, “Where Framework?”
Ordered Sept 18th and I don’t know if I’ve ever been so excited to have my account charged as I am for when the order gets ready for shipping . Been years since I had a laptop worth using (a Dell I bought in 2007 for university), and it’ll be nice to have something more mobile than my desktop again.
DIY with:
i7-1165G7
32 GB (16x2)
Wifi no vPro
1TB SN750
Expansion cards:
1 HDMI
2 USB-A (I don’t have a ton of USB-C devices yet)
1 MicroSD (get those pics off my DSLR quickly)
2 USB-C
250 GB storage
Planning on running Windows off the NVMe, since that’s what I use day-to-day, and have yet to decide on a Linux distro to install on the expansion. I might test drive a few for a while, as I’ve only really used Ubuntu thus far.
I’m hoping I can get it set up so that it normally just boots into Windows without going through a bootloader, and just plug in the expansion and change the boot priority in the BIOS for the times when I want to switch it over to being a Linux system for a while.
Interesting. I came close to ordering mine a day or two before I actually did and thought I saw that batch 3 was still up for DIY i5 kits. Your order date proves me wrong. I’m glad the wait is nearly over
Also a DIY in batch 4, ordered September 8th.
Core i5
1x 32GB
1TB WD SN850
Cards:
1x HDMI, DP, USB-A
3x USB-C
2x RAM sticks is ideal, but maybe some day I’ll need or want to upgrade to 2x32GB… Or maybe I’ll give in and just upgrade the order when the batch warning goes out.
I’ll be dual booting Linux and Windows, since I daily Linux but use Adobe products and Fusion 360 for hobby stuff. It’ll be really nice to have a portable machine that can reasonably run those. I’ve run Debian basically forever, so I was a little worried when they said that the laptop really needs a 5.11+ kernel and Stable and Testing were both still on 5.10 – but now Debian’s on 5.14. But maybe I’ll try a different distro just to be adventurous?
I know that we all signed up for the batch system, and I don’t expect anything more than what we’re getting, but the radio silence is keeping me on the edge of my seat!
I’m also in batch 4.
I guess I’m a lucky guy. I ordered mine on September 27.
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 (I thought that this cpu would be ordered the least)
2 USB-A | 1 HDMI | 1 MicroSD | 1 DP | 3 USB-C | 1 Storage – 1TB | 2x16 GB
I’ll post a how-to thread on these forums once I have my laptop in hand and can validate the design… Iwantthatgimmenow!!!
Also because there’s even a batch 5 thread.
. Been years since I had a laptop worth using (a Dell I bought in 2007 for university), and it’ll be nice to have something more mobile than my desktop again.