Of course, just a silly joke by me based on a typo by strobert. He even liked my post so I think he knows it was all in good fun, and that neither of us actually believe any FW16’s went out in Q1 2023. That would be quite confounding!
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Whoosh me! Completely missed the typo.
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Something tells me its gonna be november when the batches start rolling out, I hope its not and its actually october, but from what I can gather, we’ll be waiting a bit longer
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Im hoping October since some batches are labeled specifically “late Q4”
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yup, and tried to edit to fix the typo once I saw your post, but forum was not letting me…shrug
so was it a typo… wishful thinking… or new expansion bay idea. a flux capacitor 
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I’m Batch 5, which also says Ships late Q4 in my email. I’m hoping before Christmas. If I get it in Nov, that would be a great bday surprise (my birth month).
However, if everyone’s shipment slips, mine would surely slip into 2024. 
If we decide to cancel, would we get full refund? What happens to the Starfield code? I already got it so I’m sure everyone else did too. I’m unsure how that promo will get invalidated if someone cancels.
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You will get your 100$ refund.
You did need to register to AMD and activate your steam key through this. I rekon the AMD key is linked to your preorder and steam can probably link the same AMD key to their steam key and thus your game key.
So if you cancel they either do nothing and let you have the game for free (which i dont think so) or they will invalid your steam key through the aforementioned relationship.
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Neither. Your refund will be lowered by the games worth.
So the 100$ you prepaid minus the 99.99$ the premium edition is worth gives you 0.01$ refund.
They are not stupid and let you play for free for months.
hope you are being sarcastic.
Am not, can’t find the link though. But how would you expect it to work instead?
Ask support.
As are all other posts about it. So unless someone tries amd reports back, we’ll never know
Has anyone received news as to when will Batch 1 ship? Seems like early October wont be the case.
I still insist that it would be really nice if Framework would just send an update to all people that preordered. Even a “things are doing okay, we expect to start shipping in about a month”.
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I still think even that is asking too much. They seem to be in development up until the day they box up a product, and until then there’s no knowing what might pop up to create a delay. Like they’re building a plane as it’s trying to take off, on a runway as long as our patience (which is not to be underestimated. Let’s be honest, we’ll wait). I take the fact that the Deep Dives have gone quiet to be due to the fact that those components simply aren’t finalized yet, and those are major components. They’re still trying to bolt the wings on without dropping another wrench.
It’s just too unpredictable. It’s not like Dell who has an established process with a timeline for everything cuz they’ve been making the same damn thing for 40 years with a global infrastructure behind them. This is a young company building a relatively unique product mostly from scratch. I do not envy their work day.
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I think that would only be possible after they have concluded the early waves of AMD FW 13 shipments would should be accumulating in their factory/warehouses right now, and going out over the next few weeks. I could of course be wrong of course if they have separate manufacturing/assembly lines for each.
As for my batch one order submitted on the first day - it simply says what has already been pasted above
“Free Shipping Batch 1 - Ships Q4”
“Estimated delivery date Ships Q4”
From the same day:
As always, we’re following a batch ordering system, with the first batches shipping in Q4 2023.
I would love for them to finalize the documentation around RAM compatibility (last updated in July with express mention of forthcoming update) so I can compare and possibly order/receive the 3rd party sticks (assuming I do not keep the FW branded modules from my pre-order) ahead of receiving the FW16.
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Hey i know its not 100% safe that they will work but all of those shuld work.
I wouldnt say that, I think you cant be at max, 2 months til launch and still not be finalized components wise, youre playing a dangerous game there, especially since most of there componants are clear on the buy now page, and given that in preview videos, people had said “There is only one thing that needs changing” in regards to the build.
I think those pages just havent been writain up because theres a lot of other things that need to be sorted out and focused on during this rush of product launches.
Well, look at the AMD 13 and its issues. They only just announced the board was ready for production earlier this month, and batch 1 was supposed to ship Q3 (5 days left, I guess!). The delay between preorder and shipping wasn’t because they were building up stock. When you think about how many things can go wrong on a computer and how much of it can be out of their control, then think about how little time you have to develop a computer before its components are obsolete, and there is so little room for error, yet such a high likelihood of it! Seriously, I’d love to just spend a week in their offices. It must be nuts.
Perhaps, but to get a little more conspiratorial, they’ve got the resources to launch a youtube series and write other blogs, but no one can write a summary on the connectors? There’s gotta be another reason other than lack of personnel. Unless…they just don’t want us to know…
And I think they are. And have to. I think they’re doing a great job of it considering the complexity of building a computer from scratch, but yeah, building a company like this is hard!