1 Year - Framework Laptop Long Term

Hope the video helps people to decide if they should buy a Framework Laptop or not. I would love to hear your thoughts on both why and why not also.

I'm 7 months in with my Fairphone 5, can confirm the sentiment "ruined all the other electronics for me" :D it really sets a new standard. Framework still doesn't ship to my country, last I checked FW team was asking feedback about keyboard layouts so I guess its close, so I'm pretty sure my next laptop will be a FW13.

Great video! I already ordered mine FW 13 AMD Ryzen Professional Can’t wait to see it :))

I've had the AMD framework 13 for a few months and it's been phenomenal. I use it with windows because I need adobe for design work, and gaming. It's not a gaming laptop but it can handle games quite well. You can't get 4k Ray Traced gaming performance but its solid as. For my use case I cannot think of a better laptop. I'm excited to keep using and upgrading this machine for years to come. If anyone stumbles across this video and is considering a framework I'd say do it.

I love the idea. I am not that guy who needs a new designer laptop every year. It just needs to be ergonomic, visually non intrusive, with a good display and keyboard...good for my work as a land surveyor and some occasional gaming. Looked at the FW16, but the prices are too steep. 2x the price of a comparable (performance) workstation/gaming laptop, and the prices of the upgrade GPU and CPU with motherboard is comparable to a whole laptop with the same specs. The FW13 has a much better price performance ratio. Hope the FW16 will be more competitive price performance wise in the future. At the present time it is only for a true enthusiast with cash to spend. If it will go down in price in a year or two, I will definitely get one of these.

can you boost your audio next time? Good video regardless

One things comes to mind is whether the company will survive the next ten years. Founded in 2020, it still feels pretty new. If the company goes under, it's game over. It's hard choice for me. If you recalled, Google's Project Ara modular smartphone, Google cancelled the whole project. I thought that was the future. Let's see if Framework laptop will survive.

as soon as it gets a Miniled-panel option I'll come along

Thank you for the video, for the insights. I'm a late college student in 3rd world country, almost graduating, so the best bang-for-bucks I can get right now is mostly old secondhand, thirdhand Thinkpads. But I hope I can kickstart my job career well so I can buy a Framework laptop in five years and have it lasted up to 10 years and more!

Owner of the 1st generation 11th gen processor Framework Laptop here. Laptop still holding out strong after 24/7 usage. Upgraded Hinges and speakers later. Issues after a while is that the fingerprint reader is a tad worn and I have to use a pin half the time. Mouse pad clicker is worn and I find myself having to hit it hard or multiple times to get it to work again, if it fails completely I have to turn on the touch sensor click functionality again. Machine still works fine besides all that and whenever the motherboard decides to fry itself. I can upgrade to the latest processor motherboard without disposing the rest of the unit !

I wish it was more widely available, but I don't know if it ever will. I'm more hopeful for it to be a trendsetter (although we're seeing so many laptops with soldered RAM with the latest Intel Meteor Lake and most ARM PCs are released with it soldered too)

Thank you for the video. Really usefull your point of view. Thislaptop is more for opensource and long term buyers.

Great review! I sold my huawei matebook x pro recently and I've been thinking about buying a framework. Kinda fed up with windows btw and Endeavour os seems like a good linux distro, what do you think about gnome on laptop?

I'm waiting, patiently, for my batch 2 Q3 laptop. Very patiently.

Thank for detailed review, would recommend dual or triple boot ? Or is that possible with this hardware?

I do plan on buying the Framework laptop but there's a very, very big catch for me: I switched to a Plank keyboard 5 years ago and I cannot ever accept typing again on the pitiful keyboards that most laptops have. I'm overjoyed by the mere fact that Framework finally caught up with us AMD users, and now, all I need is some way to have the laptop either have some sort of housing to plug my Plank keyboard in, or a way to completely cover the OG keyboard in order to just put my Plank down over it.

Hello Robert, great to hear your experience with the Framework 13. Could you share which shipping forwarder you chose to have it delivered to Sweden? Living in Sweden myself but was apprehensive about the choice of shipping providers since Framework does not officially ship here...

Can you share what you did to make the fingerprint reader work? Mine has been borked for months, even after a clean install (Fedora)...

I already own a macbook but want another laptop for linux, I know it is redundant in a bad way, going comically against the philosophy of conscious consumer, but I just love the idea of framework so much. Earlier when they just aired they made the impression of wobbly, ugly laptops, but as you say, they are pretty sturdy, so idk

I recently bought an AMD Framework 13 and it has everything I'd ever want from a Laptop: 3:2 Display, HDMI Port, USB-A Port, good keyboard, 7-8h battery life and decent performance. But I've noticed quite a lot of BSoD which were also experienced by way more customers. I will probably issue an RMA but still don't know what Laptop I should replace it with, especially considering the port selection on newer models. I hope this current issue is only bound to the drivers, both for the customers and Framework.