Iāve been using my Framework 16 for about 4 days now and I absolutely love it. I built mine from the DIY-edition without reading any of the instructions just to see if I could do it and I was shocked at how self-documenting and intuitive the whole unitās modularity truly is. One of the party tricks Iāve been showing off on my live stream and to my friends and family is live swapping the keyboard and macro pad around switching sides. People are just blown away seeing a laptop do that without any tools involved and to be honest I also enjoy this very much. However, I didnāt even think for a second that you could also move the touch pad on the bottom. I thought you had to have the little covers on the side since they didnāt have any connectors above them. Welp, that was a bad assumption because yesterday night I was doing my little keyboard and macro pad swapping trick and accidentally pushed in the touch pad too far over to the right directly under the keyboard and it snapped into place and worked. I was completely shocked! I then slide the two little blanks that were on the side both into the slots off to the left of the touch pad segment and it all fit flawlessly and now my touchpad is perfectly centered with offset keyboard which not only makes my OCD super happy but also makes it, so I donāt accidentally keep touching the pad while typing!
In hindsight it should have been obvious that if you can move the peripherals on the top you could also do the same with the peripherals on the bottom but I never thought to do it for some reason. Maybe I should have RTFM but I truly wanted to see how easy it would be with just what was written on the laptop itself and the included tool. This is honestly one of the best thought out devices Iāve ever seen and it blows my mind that nobody else has thought to make a fully modular laptop like this before.
Let me know below if you also didnāt realize you could move the touch pad to one side or the other and didnāt need it perfectly in the center with the little blank out plates on either side. I honestly was shocked when both little plates just popped into place next to each other to cover the blank space. Iām now tempted to try and 3D print some custom color block out plates or plates with little recesses in them for macro notes, etc. Honestly, this Framework 16 laptop isnāt just the best laptop Iāve ever owned in terms of build quality & configurability but it makes me look at the laptop in a whole new light entirely.
Also, finding the 3D printable cup holder module for the Framework on printables also made me laugh out loud and donāt think for a second that I didnāt consider actually printing one 
Framework Cupholder Module
https://www.printables.com/model/467332-framework-laptop-cupholder-expansion-card-rev-2
Oh, one more thing, you guys are the best community ever! Iāve enjoyed reading tons of posts on here and contributing to the PSVR2 post where people have been trying to figure out how to get the PSVR2 working properly on the Framework 16 and we finally got it figured out together and it works amazing! Looking forward to hanging around these parts for a very long time since I donāt see myself changing laptops for a good long time. And honestly, thatās the point of owning a Framework right? So you donāt have to keep buying new Laptops since you can just keep upgrading like a desktop PC which is how it should have always been! I know there have been some laptops like CLEVO I think they were called that were highly configurable but it required a lot of tools and still was pretty limited by comparison and the quality quite frankly was trash! I had one back when PugetSystems was exploring selling custom laptops back in the day and even they decided not to sell them in the end because they couldnāt get the quality to a place where they were comfortable. But, this framework feels like a brick and doesnāt have any flex at all to it. Framework has clearly done their homework and listened to feedback because this thing is a unit!
Okay, time to head downstairs and format my Razer Blade Pro 17 and throw a fresh copy of Windows 11 on it so I can gift it to my 14 year old son as his first PC laptop since Iām not a Framework nerd! 
Or, how cool would it be if someone designed an analog stick that could fold up out of the module with a thin little shaft for playing flight sims? Just thinking outside the boxā¦ Or, perhaps, big speaker arrays to give it surround sound? Iām not sure what level of connectivity is available to the peripherals that connected to the top surface of the laptop but given that RGB keyboard works Iām going to guess itās at least a USB type connection which would be more than enough bandwidth for all these things.
) and have another layer for changing scenes in OBS Studio when live streaming or another layer for 10-key when entering numerical data, etc. I also like that you can bind the keys to media keys like volume up and down making it easier to access without having to hold down function and press another key. Itās pretty much infinitely configurable. You can even impalement mouse movements and actions too. I only wish that the keys themselves were little screens instead of RGB like a real StreamDeck. I hope at some point they make a module that is a little touch screen that can do something like that instead of the RGB buttons because I would love that so much. In the meantime, I just change the color scheme and layout depending on which mode itās in so I can memorize and know which mode itās in before I start hitting buttons and the wrong things start happening. Itās also nice to have a layer dedicated to navigation like up down left and right arrow keys and mouse clicks so you can push the button instead of clicking on the pad which just feels more satisfying to me. But, Iām still experimenting around to figure out what other cool stuff I can do with it.
