Just for fun, I’m curious what the community has chosen. Multiple-choice, in case you got more than 1 config 
- i3-1315U
- i5-1334U
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The i5 because I want to run some VMs and so, I am happy having more cores.
Also I want to run the FW12 for some years until I switch (hopefully by doing an upgrade), and so I hope the extra-power will last a bit longer.
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I tend to run my machines until they grind to a halt, so the investment in the higher chip meant this point was further away…
Part of the whole reduce / repair ethos behind me going for a frame.work in the first place…
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i3, it’s intended for secondary duty, my FW13 is primary, and $150 doesn’t buy enough extra performance to really change the timeline for replacing the mainboard.
I’m still using 4th gen i5 processors in one desktop and laptop, and they’re technically capable of most of the stuff I won’t be throwing at my FW12, I’ll be fine 
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I went with the i5 and 48 gigs of ram because I use it for 2d animation in Krita and some light gaming. (Rimworld, Balatro, Plate-up etc.)
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I went with the i5, I am still decided between 32 and 48 gig of ram since i most likely use linux. Most of my reasoning for the i5 is because ‘it’s nice to have and why not’ through it does allow me to use the laptop for some godot programming on the go and be able to do some light gaming on it.
I chose the i5 hoping that I can sell it on eBay to an i3 owner, once Framework releases new motherboards and I upgrade.
Though it’d be awesome if Framework offered to take back your old motherboard when you upgrade (for a small discount), refurb it, then sell machines with those boards for slightly cheaper.
I’m aware that’d be labor-intensive and likely not within their capabilities as it stands, hence the DIY cases to give old boards some value at minimal effort to Framework.
I just hope Framework see the potential in such a refurb system and consider implementing it at a later time.
I originally went with the i5 but I switched to the i3 because I won’t notice the dip in performance since the most intense thing I might do on this is learn to draw. I also assumed the i3 would draw less power than the i5.
I got the i5 because I expect that the first refresh will have memory improvements I want, so it’d be nice to have a decently strong mini-pc for my lab when I upgrade it. Given the fw16 getting upgrades has been teased this may instead become my youngest brothers first pc, but that’s yet to be determined.
Originally went i3, decided to upgrade to i5 since I plan to use this as my main laptop for the next few years.
I’m an independent game dev. So when it comes to development of a project I’ll have a few programs open alongside the game itself while coding and bug fixing. I’m sure the i3 would’ve handled my workload like a champ, but I figure the extra performance would be beneficial if I am constantly reloading my game and running so many programs at once.
I also plan to play some indie games on the machine, mostly 2D games and not so high demanding 3D games. Having a little extra power wouldn’t hurt.
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Now wouldn’t be a bad time to plug the project after getting us curious (assuming it isn’t against community rules mods I am too lazy to check)
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I did the same, this is intended to be a portable secondary (really tertiary) laptop, so I don’t think I necessarily need the extra power.
I went with the i3, for (hopefully) better battery life. I have a couple of Thinkpad X230’s with i5 CPUs chosen over the i7 for the same reason.
I like games, have you published it to a distribution platform yet? :]
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I didn’t think anyone on these forums would have any interest, but if y’all are so curious. I am just a developer of mostly queer themed visual novels which you can find here on itch. A lot of 2D assets are used in the games and the engine I use (Ren’py) is not very demanding. Perfect for the Framework 12!
The games are 99% narrative. Don’t expect any platforming, dungeon crawling, puzzles, or any action. Just some good drama and reading. 
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That’s awesome! I’d love to develop something similar in the future. :]
I’ve messed with Renpy and it’s an amazing engine for a VN type game.
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I’ve messed with Renpy and it’s an amazing engine for a VN type game.
What I love most is how not demanding it is. I’ve had my titles run on a 2010 MacBook Pro which has a Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM.
Not going to lie and say I will be playing a few visual novels on the framework 12. It’s the perfect hardware and form factor for those kind of games. 
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That’s really neat! I used to read a whole lot of queer visual novels back in the day (on my Intel Atom netbook!) and expect I would have eaten your entire catalogue up. Not into it as much anymore, but I did read Highway Blossoms two-three years ago which is particularly close to my heart.
I went with an i3 myself, as it’s faster than the i5-2500K of my previous desktop I finally replaced last year, which was still more than fast enough for anything I expect to do on a laptop. I do expect to do the nebulous “light gaming” which is such a meaningless term without further context; I’m sure it can handle Slay the Spire just fine!
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I got a 12 with i3 and so far I love it. My use case is a “travel” machine I can lug around with me when I don’t really need a powerful machine and I will be doing things like email, code reviews, and content consumption (youtube / twitch). Running Ubuntu there’s nothing about the i3 that feels slow and I’ve even played some games on steam that were perfectly adequate (dark souls 1 being the most demanding of these games).