Jump in both feet first. You wont regret ditching apple! The first thing you accidently break, you can probably replace yourself for around £10 (if you break a port). I have a HP EliteBook 840 G9 for my business and a Framework 13 Ryzen 7 for my personal device. Broke a port on my HP, £250 repair.

Wife has a MacBook, wifi failed, cant be replaced. That was over £2,300 just over 22 months ago. I just dont know why people choose Macs anymore - apart from the speakers which people keep telling me ;)

Fedora 39 or PopOS! in my experience

The gap looks too big between the laptop base and the udnerside of the screen metal housing. Also looks like it hasnt lined up correctly. Have you tired resitting it. Looks like its pressing on something inside, probably a cable. Did you watch the video on installing it?

Sounds good, which one did you go for?

My choice too :)

Which one did you go for?

I’ve had a bash at 3d printing some legs/stand thing for my desk, it ‘work in progress’ shall we say!

Almost neon purple too, that would be sweet.

Which colour did you go for? I went orange :)

Which version do you have?

I run 3 x 27" monitors from my Thinkpad dock, connected to one USBc port on my Ryzen 7 Framework

That for me though means owning a mac, which is just something I cannot bring myself to ever do again :)

thanks, interested to see what others use them for and how much, I think netflix was the only thing I really used it for too. I do think its a good idea, I just dont see the use case, but thats just me :)

I guess it should be an option though if there are some folks out there who use it. Can’t see it being a big deal to have a touchscreen as an option.

See lots of complaints about speakers, personally speaking from my experience with my Framework 13 Ryzen 7 this just doesn’t seem to make sense.

I have a few other premium laptops for my various businesses, some costing more and with B&O speakers. None are great. I have used Macbooks too (in the past just want to add), and equally they were poor too, just with a very high price tag and shocking customer service.

I’m keen to see what laptops people think have good speakers. I have never come across any that are exceptionally better than these? If there are any, post below, I could use a device for my kids that has good sound.

I’ve never understood the appeal of the touchscreen on a laptop. I had various Surface Pro’s over the years and a few HP laptops with touchscreen. I think I used it like a handful of times.

Just don’t see the point IMO. I’d be keen to hear what people actually use the touchscreen for when we all have phones, why do we want a PC/tablet too?

Have you checked you didnt damage or crush any cables when putting it together?

What’s dated about the design?

Why dont you use a bitcoin wallet or a virtual card then?

Do you mean becasue of the aspect ratio of the screen?

I love my AMD Ryzen, had it for a month or so now. I do pretty well with the battery, but yes, I used to have a Dell Lattitude which had an extreme battery!

It woul dbe nice to see if Framework could make a double USBC expansion card.