I've loved mine. Some issues with the heat management and fans--but that's also been a Linux/laptop thing--fresh thermal paste, a new (warranted!) fan replacement part, and finally figuring out best drivers setup have brought it roughly in line with a Dell or whatever.
Really enjoyed when I recently upgraded the memory on my tower last year, and threw the old ones on the Framework and it worked great. The expansion slots are a bit gimmicky but still surprisingly useful--when my wfh setup changed recently it was simple to change the mDP over to the other side and then never having to think about a dongle.
But I plan to actually upgrade the motherboard this year, so we'll see how that goes and looking forward to reading others experiences.
Their team is pretty active in their forums, so after some comments I was directed to request a replacement and turns out my laptop was part of a batch that had some known fan issues--so they sent a fan and some thermal paste no charge. Have read a lot of similar accounts of them making things right, I assume it was part of working out bugs and not overall production issues.
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I've loved mine. Some issues with the heat management and fans--but that's also been a Linux/laptop thing--fresh thermal paste, a new (warranted!) fan replacement part, and finally figuring out best drivers setup have brought it roughly in line with a Dell or whatever. Really enjoyed when I recently upgraded the memory on my tower last year, and threw the old ones on the Framework and it worked great. The expansion slots are a bit gimmicky but still surprisingly useful--when my wfh setup changed recently it was simple to change the mDP over to the other side and then never having to think about a dongle.
But I plan to actually upgrade the motherboard this year, so we'll see how that goes and looking forward to reading others experiences.
Is there a (video-)guide on how to do that? Why was the fan replacement warranted?
Their team is pretty active in their forums, so after some comments I was directed to request a replacement and turns out my laptop was part of a batch that had some known fan issues--so they sent a fan and some thermal paste no charge. Have read a lot of similar accounts of them making things right, I assume it was part of working out bugs and not overall production issues.
Framework have extensive, ifixit-style guides on their website: https://guides.frame.work/c/Framework_Laptop