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
Hi,
I’m Lucas from Germany.
I just pre-ordered my Framework 13 Ryzen - it’s supposed to replace my Dell XPS 13 that is beginning to show its age.
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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!
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)？
Greetings,
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 Everyone,
I discovered the Framework Laptop while looking for a more customizable laptop in a similar way desktops can be.
I am looking forward to try the version 16 due to the gpu and customization,
[Edit]I use dual booted early 2015 macbook pro and Arch linux btw
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
Hi all
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.
Hi. I am Bill. I am a Decision Professional (I travel the world helping individuals, teams, companies and countries make decisions and create/implement strategy). Most of the high system demand I do is enterprise or mega-project modelling. I’ve been piecing together my own desktops since about 2000. I live in Canada but have companies in the US and Canada.
I learned about Framework from Linus and am eagerly awaiting news on the 16, but have a failsafe order for a 13 just in case.
Yeah, but other people do most of the work and I just coach & give opinions while seeing the world, so it is pretty low stress and I get to spend billions
Hi.
I’m soon to be computer science student from Finland. 111 days of army left 
. I have dyslexia so please excuse any typos I make. I came across FW from LTT.
My current laptop is a low spec dell latitude 3300 (i3-7020U RAM 8 GB 236GB) with a couple of problems: cracked bezel, another crack next to the touch pad, charging cable is starting to break, touch pad buttons not working and it almost died two weeks ago.
I’m planning on getting the FW 16" when 1: the FW 16" can be pre-ordered 2: FW can be ordered to Finland 3: Finnish(/Swedish) keyboard launches. my budget is at least 2k€ so I think I’ll be able to get a pretty good upgrade even if I have to skimp out on the GPU or not get one at the beginning.
Hey there, everyone!
I’m Fuchsmode, otherwise known as Fuxxy - or simply Christian - and I can’t wait to dive into Framework with the upcoming 16" laptop.
I’m a mechanical engineer (kind of, depends on how you wanna look at things 
) from Austria, and for my day job I repair machine tools and design special engineering solutions. Machinery isn’t just my job, but my passion as well, so I have a nicely equipped hobbyist machine shop complete with a Deckel FP2, Harrison 280 Trainer Manual/CNC, and a homebuilt CNC mill.
I’m buying the Framework since I’ve got a laptop, which is nice to take down to the shop and look at CAD/drawings etc. but does not have the power to handle bigger CAD assemblies and a desktop pc, which is good for CAD, but unfortunately not in my workshop. 
I’m also super excited about the expansion cards, both in the sense of using them and also making some. I may not be the best at electrical engineering but I’m sure I can make some nice housings with my metal machining capabilities.
That all beings said, I’m looking forward to joining the framework users and to see what inventive creations all of you come up with.
Hello,
My name is Colin. I am an international student in China and just graduated from high school. I am going to learn computer engineering in the University of Miami several monthes later.
The first day I knew framework in Linus’s vedio, I believe this is going to be a great idea and it will change the industry. I used to interested in DIY PCs, but since I was still a student with limited budget, I bought a laptop so that I can carry around.
I am now using zenbook 14. Recently, I hope to find a solution to upgrade my zenbook by adding a GPU. Some solutions use thunderbold 3, but it will waste at least 10% of performence and the cost is pretty high, obviously it is not a good deal. Some solutions use oculink, but I have to break my zenbook to achieve that, that will be ugly. As a result, I suddenly remember framework. Just take the battery off and plug the GPU in? That is so cool! And, instead of buying a new laptop to upgrade, changing only parts of the laptop can save big money!
Hope I can learn more about the framework in this community!
Hey all,
I am Mike and am very glad to join this community. I learned about Framework from Linus and wanted to extend my support by purchasing a 13th gen laptop that just arrived today. I have been building computers since the early 90’s as a kid and work prefssionally as a cloud architect. Using a Framework laptop is more of an interest for me, but it does solve a painpoint of finding a 13" laptop with USB-C power delivery on both sides as I move around my house a lot.
Hi,
Purchased my 13th gen Intel Framework today. Excited for it to arrive in July!