I’m Chr from Germany. I leaned about Framework from the LTT Video. I Instantly fallen in love to the concept of the Framework Laptop but it was not available in Germany at this time. So I waited till December 2021 until they launched it in Germany. The next day I placed the PreOrder on a DiY 1135g7 FL13. I followed the route of my laptop with shipping trackers until it finally landed on my doorstep in March 2022. I put in a 1TB SN750, 16GB DDR4 3200 MHz RAM and installed Windows 10.
The Framework is my first Laptop. I build myself a Gaming Desktop in 2017 and did not need a Laptop back then. But i do not regret my purchase. Except for the BIOS battery lifetime problem i did not had any issues so far.
I’m Claudia, a former Mac enthusiast who left the Apple ecosystem last year for more user-freedom-respecting pastures.
I bought my Framework laptop (12th-gen Intel) five months ago to replace a 2013 MBP. Mainly using it for little side projects and for picking up TypeScript and Python.
I’m also quite into package management, so I’m active in the AUR.
Happy to be part of this community!
Hello everyone, wherever I go on the internet I am known as Autumn Leaves, I am from mainland China and first learned about Frame PC content from LinusTechTips’ Bilibili channel, a service provider serving mainland China, similar to YouTube and Tiktok. LTT is located on the Bilibili channel which currently has 1.02 million Chinese followers.
I am currently an accountant and my hobbies are various electronics, astronomy, and physics. I am very interested in DIY and eco-friendly ideas for frame PCs. It’s frustrating that I can’t buy Framework products in mainland China. I really hope that we can open up a purchase channel in mainland China as soon as possible and open up Alipay and WeChat payments to pay for the products. Usually in mainland China, we buy games and software on epic and steam, which both support Alipay and WeChat payments. By the way, LTT is located on the Bilibili channel LinusTechTips的个人空间-LinusTechTips个人主页-哔哩哔哩视频.
The Chinese internet and the world internet are largely closed to each other. On some other forums I have often been subjected to cyber violence by friends from all over the world because of my Chinese identity, even though I have done nothing wrong. I want my friends to know that we are all friendly people, please don’t be misled by media reports and get a bad impression of mainland China and Chinese people, come to mainland China and see for yourself.
Finally, I hope to see the long-term success of the framework.
P.S. My English is not very good and I have used the help of the DeepL translator in the above statement, so I hope there are no mistakes and you can understand.
Greetings from Autumn Leaves, Jiangsu Province, Mainland China
That happens to lots of people who identify with powerful nation, or religion etc.
People are much the same the world over and the right or wrong is not universal they are man made customs, so what I do may well be wrong in many people’s eyes.
Don’t forget if you have a friend in Taiwan they can buy one and gift it to you, but of course they will be the owner as far as Framework is concerned warranty etc.
I’m not aware of any trade restrictions that apply.
If you don’t have friend in Taiwan, maybe Australia, I think they are just about to have access.
So why user41 and not Autumn leaves as a user name?
Greetings Framework Fam! My name is Pete Lee: I’ve been involved with technology for over 30 years and am now doing Product Management gigs here and there for drone data analytics, small business digital transformation, and informally advise Chief Product Officers (portfolio). I also broker telecom, SaaS and IoT connectivity services as a part-time Technology Advisor for CloudRomeo.
I’m truly grateful for the vision of the Framework team. To me, it’s not just about Right To Repair, it’s also about putting the personal back into personal computing.
For example, I plan on getting a Framework laptop and ruggedizing it for Disaster Relief use (I’m an Emergency Medical Technician and an amateur radio operator): special provisions are necessary for environmental reasons (heat, dust, moisture). I’m lucky to have friends who own 3D printers, mills, and design chops!
P.S. If you’re into Software Defined Radio, ML-trained Morse Code decoders, and/or HF, check out my Nexus project here!
I was a radio electrician, not designer, back in the 60s, but your work would I have stayed in that vein, is a very attractive area. Now I manage land to simplify my demands, but who could say no the Framework, it’s a to have and be involved in.
Hi Framework Community! I just preordered my Framework laptop 13 (7040 series). It’ll be replacing my Lenovo Yoga C930 from 2018, which hopefully I’ll be able to sell second hand. Things I’m most excited for include being able to have all my hardware work on Linux and having a powerful enough iGPU to do some light gaming. I’m a software developer by trade, so having some extra horsepower to cut down build times will be nice too.
I love the approach Framework has taken to building repairable, upgradable, modular laptops and have had my eye on them for a while, but didn’t really feel like I was missing out on enough to justify an upgrade before this year.
Writing this is kind of like deja-vu. The last time I was active on a Discourse server was in the late 20-teens with Eve (the crowdsourced 2-in-1 company). I didn’t get screwed, but I know a lot of folks did. Glad there’s another exiting tech hardware community I can learn from.
Hello! Welcome to the Forums! As a Chinese person myself I can relate to the racism you face on the internet pretty well, and hope you don’t encounter any here
By chance have you read 三体 (random question I ask everyone interested in astrophysics)？
I wonder how it goes down here, mentioning racism. There was post or few about the Swastika, Communism etc.
Although people use the term race, as in the Nazi stuff, isn’t it more about culture and nationality, after all are we each a member of the human race.
Identifying with a section creates rifts and the larger the section the more people may feel threatened.
I get bullied cause I don’t fit in. The police told me to register with the travellers which are a protected group in the UK.
I said that’s exactly the problem, I shouldn’t have to Gay, or Black or whatever to get specialised treatment, nor do I want it.
When the great Tao is forgotten,
goodness and piety appear.
When the body’s intelligence declines,
cleverness and knowledge step forth.
When there is no peace in the family,
dutiful respect begins.
When the country falls into chaos,
patriotism is born.
I’m new here, I have pre-ordered my first Framework. I am pretty excited to get it in June. I am looking forward to this experience. The more I read and watch videos about it, the more excited I am about it. I will be installing openSUSE on it because, it is my Linux distribution of choice.
Truly, such an exciting product that I am hoping for many, many years of enjoyment.
I do have one usability question about it. The 3:2 ratio screen. It does concern me a bit, probably because I am so accustomed and have enjoyed the 16:9 ratio screen and the uniformity of having everything be 1080p has been great. My current machine is an HP EliteBook 840 G7 but the repairability of it, specifically the keyboard, is pretty abysmal. I do love the form factor of the 14" chassis tho, I am hoping I love the 13" more.
Thank you, Framework, for making a machine that fits my personal ideals and answer the question of how to create a sustainable laptop platform.
Hey, incoming college student from the US. Found out about Framework while researching a laptop to buy for college. Just pre-ordered my Batch 2 Intel 13th Gen Framework.
Ageing tinkerer, moderately talented, sometimes resourceful for unconventional tricks. Motto: “If it works, try not to look astonished”.
Framework 11gen i7-1165G7. Currently runs Manjaro Linux, a good balance for me between usability and opportunities/necessities to tinker and tweak. Before, various Macs, and in VMs a few windosen.
Hi all. Chris here. I’m an Electrical Engineer and have worked many years at Intel. I ran across the Framework site looking for a laptop that had a modular storage system. Totally impressed with what they have done, and will likely pick up both a 13" and 16" laptop at some point.
I love the openness of the design, and the community energy. Reminds me of the Amiga community and accessibility to the system to do mods (Amigas came with full schematics for the system)
Looking forward to learning more and being a part of the community
Gabriel here. After years preaching about right to repair and device and software ownership, etc. (don’t worry --my podcast is in Spanish so you’re safe from it), and after some years poking Framework to ship to Australia, I am finally waiting for a Framework 13 Intel to arrive at some point in the next few weeks.
In order to reduce and reuse I had to wait until my wife needed a laptop so I could give away my ThinkPad to her, so that’s why it took a while!
Well, that was a painful start, but here we go:
Myself: Comms Tech working with computers since Windows 3.1
Just retired after 30+years in my field. I use computers as a tool for either programming other devices, general work and social uses.
My current 2.5 year old expensive 17 inch Laptop has just developed an intermittent hardware issue that is either the HDD or RAM.
Sick of Laptops that barely make it 3 years before they have to be replaced.
Interested in the up and coming 16inch Laptop (I need a big screen to see properly what I am looking at).
I hope that it will have full Windows OS support. Done years of Linux dabbling, now I just want a Laptop that works.
Found out about Framework from the “Guardian”, as an author gave a review. This sparked my interest.
I’m Perrin, also known on social media as Cresso The Grey.
I’m an aspiring game dev and musician. I just got out of high school and am going into phone sales as my first full time job. I absolutely love tech, from both the hardware and software side. Always been a sucker for innovation, so when I saw Linus’s video on Framework I just knew I had to buy one. The possibility that this could be the only laptop I’ll ever need for the rest of my life is very enticing. I hope to use it to kickstart my career in game development.
Also I really like cooking. Completely unrelated but I thought it would be a nice detail.
