Price Difference between the 3 Processor Options

While a valid one, I’d argue that that is a fairly niche use-case.

I think that is just by virtue of Framework’s mission. Given the form factor, it’s quite clear that the Framework Laptop is not enthusiast-grade wrt performance.

The 4800U (while hard to find) is a beastly chip and I’m glad it will work for you. But again, looking at the target audience and their use-cases, I’d argue that the Tiger Lake platform is at least on par, if not better (despite having half the core/thread count):

The only reason I’d like to see an AMD mainboard variant is for the potential battery savings.

Nice.

I’m on a Ryzen 9 4900H [gaming laptop…and I don’t game] when it comes to virtualization, and use it’s dGPU for various transcoding when needed. The Framework laptop is nice…but doesn’t fit some of my heavier use cases.