I am a young father and electrical engineer. My first computer in the 90s was a build it yourself affair. (Yellow and brown) I learned so much about computers and how they worked by having to put them together and build them myself. My kids are getting to the age I want to start introducing them to technology and the internet, and I want them to have a similar expeirence I had growing up. The framework laptop looks like a great way for me to start teaching my kids in the same way I learned. The machine can also be repaired and seems to be very rugged for its form factor which is perfect for kids to make mistakes with.
I just purchased a factory seconds machine and with parts laying around the house I plan to finish out the machine. Plan is to start by teaching them the hardware components and let them put it together under supervision. Since their is a vibrant linux community I will teach them the software side by having them load linux in the same way i had to load Windows 95 across a stack of floppy disks.
Never the less I am excited to support this product and community.
I noticed the forum supports Markdown, the below is just a test to understand capabilities
sudo emerge -avuDU @world
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena , whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
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sounds like a great plan, welcome to the community!
welcome to the community, please share pictures of your cat with us!!
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Iām glad You asked! 
actually I have two cats
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Iām Robert J. Sawyer, a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science-fiction writer who lives near Toronto; my website is https://sfwriter.com.
Iāve been using portable computers since 1983 when I acquired an Osborne 1 running CP/M, back then the lightest portable in the world at just 24 pounds!
Until I got my Framework 13 (AMD Ryzen 7 7840U, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD), my portables and laptops had always been secondary systems, but the Framework (usually docked with two external monitors) is now my primary computer.
I still write with WordStar for DOS, for reasons I explain in this essay ā and the Framework 13 appeals to me because of the 3:2 aspect ratio of the screen, which is great for wordprocessing; I also very much appreciate that the screen has a matte finish, rather than a glossy one.
(Iām using Windows 11 Pro on my Framework, and run WordStar and other MS-DOS applications under DOSBox-X.)
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Thank you for the introduction and welcome to the community Robert, itās amazing to have you here!
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Hi! Iām Mathilde, a french girl living in Belgium. Iām an agronomist. Iām not very much of a computer expert. As I was looking for my next computer, trying to find something a bit eco-friendly, something equivalent to the Fairphone but for computers, i came across Framework. Iāve spent hours reading reviews and posts of the community, to try understand if itās for me, what configuration to choose etc. Itās hard for me to follow as english is not my native langage and even more computer-langageā¦ Iām pretty sure iām convinced that the Framework 16 is the one for me, even if the ethical concept is not as thorough as I would have liked, i like that itās modular, evolutive and fixable. I have some questions before making my order, so iām going to posts them in a another thread i suppose. See you soon
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Welcome to the community Mathilde!!
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Hi yāall! Iām J. Arath Fuentes, Iām mexican and live right in the border. I am 1 year away from college where Iāll pursue a physics major. I just bought a factory seconds laptop but I am yet to get it in my hands, Iām so excited! Asides from physics, Iām a huge computer nerd and I love all the tinkering and things that are waiting for me, I think Iāll use it heavily for programming, schoolwork and CAD in Fusion360 (Iāll be dual-booting Windows 10 and Artix Linux with a tiling window manager, any tips will be appreciated). At some point, I plan to update it to an AMD mainboard. I chose framework because I was fed up with my Lenovo Ideapad; itās made of some plastic and much of it is broken right now. I replaced the keyboard myself but it obviously isnāt placed as perfectly as it should, works for now thoughā¦
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Welcome to the community Arath !!
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Hey, yāall. I recently got a shiny new Framework 16, rather than getting an MBP. I do cross platform dev, so Iām no stranger to PC, but Iām using this opportunity to leave the walled garden and learn the secret, third option. 
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congrats and welcome to the community!
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Hey I am Jesenko, a long time linux user and software developer living in Denmark. Iāve followed the Framework project for some years and bought a FW13 with an 7640u the day shipments opened to Denmark upgrading from my now very used T480.
The computer is very nice and I really, really enjoy the 3:2 aspect ratio freeing me from a decade plus of 16:9 hell.
Being a tinkerer at heart I found the repairability aspect to be very, very appealing. It reminds me of the IBM ThinkPad era, where basically every part could be bought and replaced and they even went to the trouble of writing the torque spec for all screws in the manual.
At work we have bought Lenovo for ages and have had a lot of issues with their later SKUs so we just received our initial shipment of 10 Framework laptops (4x 13" and 6x 16") to replace some older Lenovo 14".
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Hi there, my name is Jakub and I am a software developer from Poland.
I am planning on buying a FW13 laptop but once latest AMD CPUs are available hoping for extended battery life on linux.
While waiting for an announcement of new MB a silly idea came to my mind. I have no experience in designing HW so this can be really dumb, but here it is anyway.
How about designing a new iteration of FW motherboard to consist of two parts: the motherboard itself, and a ādaughterboardā that fits into MB like a puzzle piece?
On that DB you place CPU with some clever heat dissipation interface on one side (and possibly a discrete GPU), and on the other side you could put RAM (possibly LPCAMM2 or soldered) and an SSD interface. This way you can have all three components being single digit milimeters apart from one another.
All other stuff stays on MB, and when it comes to upgrade you only replace DB, leaving everything else in place.
Maybe with this design a laptop could fit a larger battery, say up to 80Wh?
Is this idea even worth a single comment?
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Hi all, I am a software engineer from the UK. I have been eyeing up Framework laptops since the 11th gen Intel was released, but my old clunky laptop just wasnāt quite falling apart enough for me to justify an upgrade. After lurking on this forum, following Frameworkās social media accounts, and generally teasing myself window shopping on the DIY-laptop-builder-store-page for what feels like forever, I have finally placed an order for a new laptop. I cannot wait for it to arrive! 
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Welcome to the community Jesenko!!
Hi Jakub, welcome to the community! Iām not an engineer and canāt tell if this is possible but I love the name daughterboard 
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Welcome to the community inkyvoxel, congrats!!
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it is very important to own, take care and respect things, not only electronic stuff, but everything else and that is why I decided to take a risk and buy hardware that I can modify 
