I’m not going to lie. This is somewhat a tragicomic thread. Many were invested in this dream of expecting this project to come to reality, meanwhile if you live in China (or bought it from there) this is the second year with a second gen of Lenovo laptops with an Oculink port and already new Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake CPUs (you have the option to get it in the 16" or the 14"):
https://mitem.lenovo.com.cn/product/1043467.html
All this time waiting. As for Framework the only hope in my opinion is if they release their new models with the discrete Thunderbolt 5 controller this year. Which is $19:
I doubt.
So far I didn’t see a reason to put my money on their devices.