Welcome to the community Draconium! I’m not sure if you are the first dragon of this community but I know for sure that you are not the first music producer/musician here. We’ll be looking forward to see how you will use Framework Laptop 16 for your music project. Hope you enjoy your stay!
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Well said and welcome. Safe to say we’re all pretty excited oh yeahhh {kramer voice}.
I hope some day I get to say: I was an early supporter of a tenacious little company hell-bent on (finally) disrupting the industry for the better once and for all. They succeeded spectacularly. Well-established players panicked and were forced to change… like… everything so they wouldn’t get left behind.
Sure that’s the ultimate dramatic scenario, but you just… never… know. Much stranger things have happened. Anyway don’t step on my dreams 
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is Framework Laptop 16 is more reliable for music projects?
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I’ve had computers since before “normal. People” had computers… My first upgrade was removing 8 individual ram chips off of my 286 motherboard and installing 12 new ones to upgrade from 640k to a whole megabyte on the advice of a friend. Then I found out that anything above 640 wasn’t going to get used by normal programs in DOS 3.0 or 3.1 or whatever we had at the time lol… Every PC I’ve had since that time I built myself, until the convenience of laptops became too hard to ignore. I have been using a 13-year-old laptop until the power port burned out on me recently because I refuse to spend money on some piece of crap laptop that I’m not going to like. Fast forward to last week when I saw a Lewis Rossman video that mentioned framework. Now I have a 16 on order! Can’t wait for Q2 2024! I have a feeling there will be things I don’t like about this laptop. But the fact that I can buy parts for it and upgrade or repair any part of it will keep the warm and fuzzy feeling going for many years to come.
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well, I’m not a music producers myself but we have folks here who can answer that question, once they receive their laptops.
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Welcome to the community! I hope Framework Laptop 16 meets your expectations and you enjoy using it, upgrading it and repairing it for many years to come.
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Hi everyone! I’m currently a student a little over half way done with my degree in Management Information Systems with a concentration in Cybersecurity.
I found out about Framework through YouTube and immediately fell in love with the concept, and its usability with Linux. Unfortunately, I am a bit late to the party since I’m in Batch 16, but I know it’ll be well worth the wait.
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Greetings,
My name is Tim, and I am a family father of several children. I am a passionate FullStack software developer, and my life’s purpose is to contribute to a better, more peaceful world. Sustainability is also an important topic for me, and I have always wrestled with myself because the constant acquisition of new hardware is anything but environmentally friendly. That’s what brought me here, and I have become a great admirer of this fantastic project. Although so much effort, manpower, and capital have already been invested in this project, for which I have great respect, there is still much to be done. If Framework succeeds in realizing even more individuality for their products, especially in terms of color, different panels, and processor architecture, I will also one day be the proud owner of a Framework notebook and pursue my work with pride.
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Im a Sec Engineer (ans also sys admin because company wont hire enough people…)
I was given free budget to pick w/e laptop i wanted to replace my Dell and Macbook that were my work systems.
My Framework 13 AMD on Fedora with a Windows VM has replaced both of those systems as daily workhorse.
welcome to the community. Enjoy the hardware!
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More reliable than what? what is the basis on? and using what interfaces/hardware/software?
if you use some specific software that is bias towards Mac, then no probably now (Scarlett Audio as an example - they put more dev/effort in their Mac drivers than Windows, and rely complete on community drivers for Linux)
but is Framework hardware reliable? yes. i can say without any doubts that Framework systems have great quality control, and work as advertised.
If your question is more about firmware of MIDI devices, drivers, and OS with specific DAW/modelers, thats not really a hardware issue but software.
I’ve only messed with Amphub and reaper with a basic Interface (i only play guitar) and it has had zero issues.
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Welcome to the community! It will be an interesting wait for sure, hope you like it here.
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Welcome to the Framework community Tim, thank you for your kind words!
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Hello my name is Sean. Forgot to introduce myself a while back. Love my Framework 13 and looking forward to the Framework 16. Hope you all enjoy the Holidays Framework Team.
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Welcome to the community Sean!
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Cheers!
Polymath, soul surfer, can’t concentrate on just one thing. Must learn “All the things”
Retired from Medical Device R&D world, learned about Framework from the Start 9 community. Wood Metal Audio artist. Love to make purdy things for people that look and sound good.
Hope to share something productive
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Welcome to the community!
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Hi, everyone!
Educator and researcher in the fields of information systems and business analytics, got my Framework Laptop 13 AMD DIY last week, run Debian 12 and use it for teaching, research, paperwork / office productivity, …
Been using Lenovo laptops for more than one decade, but this time I have chosen a Framework since I did not want to replace the Laptop whenever the battery has reached EOL once again. I really like Framework’s concept of being repair-friendly in terms of construction and spare part supply.
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Welcome to the community!
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Hello everyone!
Professional software engineer, casual game developer, and thus by necessity, occasional 3d artist. Favorite engine to work in is Godot, have worked in Unity and Ren’Py, always willing to figure something out if it’s good for the project I want to build.
I’m jumping into this ecosystem to have a long term, sustainable, powerful machine for travel and local games running at, for instance, local breweries and such. I will be running Arch on mine. Please point me to relevant dev docs / threads on the subject, as above, willing to learn.
Looking forward to it all!
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Welcome to the community! Can’t wait to see your art/games you will create on your Framework machine!
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