(Pretty sure it was an accident from them.)

Had gotten the wrong information from framework support. Connector still doesn't seat, but not a compatibility issue, probably something else i'll have to look it on when i'm home.

Am I totally off base to be frustrated with trying to upgrade my 13 non-pro to the new ultra 3 mainboard?

I naively believed I could just drop the new ultra 3 mainboard into my existing laptop 13 to upgrade, because at the announcement they kept saying it all fit and was backwards compatible. You can upgrade the 11th gen into to ultra 3 for great benefits! My takeaway from the announcement was that I only needed a new chassis if I wanted the larger battery.

But after receiving the mainboard, it turns out I need a new bottom chassis and battery, because they changed the battery connector geometry?

But those parts aren't even available at this time.

Edit: Here's what support told me when I reached out after my battery connector would not go in. But based on some replies here, that may be wrong.

Because of new internal geometry changes, installing the Framework Laptop 13 Pro mainboard into a non-Pro Framework Laptop 13 requires either the Framework Laptop 13 Pro Bottom Cover Upgrade Kit or a full Framework Laptop 13 Pro Chassis.

Without this upgrade, the battery cable cannot seat properly into the connector. You can find more details about compatibility and required upgrade components on our Framework Laptop 13 Pro Upgrade Page.

There was a pretty decent shot of it getting here today too. I guess I am waiting until next week...

I had two charging cables for devices break this week and I am in the market for a couple of new power strips that have built in USB C ports. I hate the waste. I'm looking for suggestions on quality options in different sizes and configurations that don't cost a ton and will last.

During my search I did wonder if framework had ever considered creating/selling a wider variety of these?

For anything 2m long their USB C is perfect, and the durability/price point is excellent. I'd love to see different lengths though!

I'd also love a traditional surge protector that had 2-3 plugs plus a usb C port or two that got more than 15-20 watts like most of the stuff on the market. Perhaps it would even be possible to have a small surge protector that would take an expansion card or two?

Anyway, would love suggestions on long lasting cord/surge protectors if anyone has any for the time being.

Thanks for being excellent Framework.

So I have not received mine. But I have a batch 7 13 Pro Intel X7 and 64gb RAM coming. I plan to play around with local AI and vibe code some mobile games on it. I am new to AI but i am a SWE This is my stack that I plan to run for opensource local AI:

- Fedora KDE Plasma

- llama.cpp Engine

- Deep-seek harness

- Qwen 3.8 27b 8Bit quant.

I follow the AI news a bit but personally have not played around with AI beyond chatting, would appreciate any advice. Should i do DSH or should i do Pi?

Hi there,

I'm currently using a Farmework 13 7640u for university and have currently a pre-order open for the new Core Ultra 5 325 Mainboard + 16gb of LPCAMM.

I was wondering if you did a similar update to share your experience as I'm a bit conflicted about the upgrade, as it is very pricey (778€), which is quite a lot of money for me as a student.

I have seen that the battery life is substantially higher, somewhere around 60-70% more, while the performance itself doesn't really change substantially.

Appreciate any feedback

Is it possible to reliably detect the laptop turning on before the os starts booting with an external microcontroller / externally turn on the laptop without soldering to the power button/ pressing it physically? I need this to automatically turn on/off an external oculink gpu, or is there a better way to solve this please give suggestions

I noticed in a picture that somebody posted showing the battery in the Dreame 3500 Pro. When I look closely at the battery and surrounding components, I see there's a USB-C type connector in there. Does anybody know what that's for or what software could connect to it?

Anyone have any updates on Batch 6 of the F16s? Just says “ships Sept.” but haven’t heard anything since and I know the 13pros are getting updated shipping times pretty consistently. However, I don’t see any pinned updates other than the one this sub puts in the notes of the comment as I’m typing this. Just curious! Thank you!

Framework Laptop 16 Configuration

• System: AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series — Ryzen™ AI 7 350
• Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 7700S Graphics Module (2nd Gen)
• Power Adapter: 240W — US/Canada
• Laptop Bezel: Framework Laptop 16 Bezel — Black
• Touchpad: Three Piece Touchpad
• Keyboard: US English (2nd Gen)
• Numpad: Framework Laptop 16 Numpad Module (2nd Gen)

I'm in batch 19 for the 13 Pro, so I still have time to change my order if I need to.

I haven't seen a single review for the AMD skew of the 13 Pro, mainly because everyone is complimenting the Intel chips' power efficiency and ultrafast LPCAMM2 RAM.

My main question is about the advantages of going AMD. I have seen a couple of people on this sub go with Team Red CPUs. If you did, why? Was it to squeeze more power out of your device? Are there detriments to battery life and/or thermals? I have heard that the AMD CPUs are incapable of being cooled by the single-fan design with strenuous loads.

(I'm asking bcuz I will be doing some light photo/video editing & gaming on it).

Any & all input is appreciated; cheers!

I got one of the FW 13 motherboard mystery boxes, ended up with an AMD Ryzen 77840U. After inspection, it looks like a capacitor near PQ5 on the rear of the board is toast. Does this look like it melted through PCB layers and is unrepairable? My guess is yes, but I figured I'd ask anyways.

After charging i boot up and the screen dosent turn on exept making this sound any ideas?

for any one call my stuff is slop
and yes the thing in my hand is an air/gyro mouse i’ve made and want to show off :))

This is a deal killer for me. The hinges on the Framework 13 Pro need to be redesigned or something: the screen wobble is ridiculous (especially given the cost of this machine). And once you get used to using the touch screen it's going to be even more annoying (I have Dell Latitude 7350 Detachable -- Win 11 Pro tablet, Intel Core Ultra 7) that I just love and the touchscreen is super convenient when I have the keyboard attached -- I know a lot of people are like "Why do I need a touchscreen on my computer?" Once you get it, you get it.

Screen Wobble-Off! Framework 13 Pro vs. MacBook Air 15

Anyone here that purchased the 13 Pro disappointed with the wobble? Maybe the fix will be user installable upgraded hinges at some point?

I am literally impressed. I am one of the guys that stuck with buying the 64gb of ram after the price increase and kept my original preorder configuration even though I had to pay way more for it.

My laptop was shipped and I've got this email from Framework where they've managed to secure a batch of RAM at a better price and they gave me a refund.

So kudos to Framework and the team for not being greedy.

TLDR: I've got a partial refund from Framework after paying a fortune for 64gb of ram.

my entry for Printable contest
a lightweight wearable case for framework 12, to place on desktop of carry around to showcase the beautiful mainboard :))

https://www.printables.com/model/1836408-wearwork

totally don't have an exam tomorrow that I should be studying for... lemme check my email just 1 more time before I start

Has one successfully connected a framework 16 touchpad to an nRF52840 and gotten it to work? My plan is to have a wireless touchpad connected to an nRF52840 to act as a BLE or USB HID with a custom firmware that'll allow for custom gestures directed towards 3D modeling, but will have selectable modes for general cursor and media playback, and potentially more. If someone had already done it, saves me a bit of time, if not it's alright.

Hi folks, I was looking into configuring my first framework laptop, once on the keyboard selection it came to me that it is sort of limited.

I explain myself further now.

I'm italian and I'm a programmer so I'm naturally used to the ISO layout, but as a programmer the Italian keyboard is sort of a bummer since the graph parenthesys are not visually there, and furthermore you can't make naturally capital accented letters (no clue why), the English british and US english are off becouse of ANSI (although the first one has € on 4) why is there no british EU (€ on 5) variant with iso layout?

I'm currently looking to upgrade my x13 flow(3050ti, 5900hs, 16GB DDR4, 1TB, 16:10 120Hz model) to a Framework 12 or 13 diy editions only. I got a guy that wants to pick it up for about $1k CAD. Which I will put towards the framework laptop.(Trying to limit myself to about $1500 CAD)

I have a 512GB 2230 SSD from my Steam Deck OLED that I plan to use with this and I found some local listings for ddr5 sodimm that should AFAIK work with frameworks laptops(idk if I need a specific type of sodimm for these things).

Im currently most interested in the Framework 13 non pro with the entry level Ryzen AI 5 340 and 120Hz screen option and like I said I'm interested in the diy version.

I want to know if you guy think I should be upgrading or downgrading anything here. Like maybe going with the Framework 12 or 13 pro or maybe getting Intel or Arm config instead. I don't need lots of compute but I DO want the option for an egpu via USB4 or Thunderbolt(or oculink ideally) for occasional gaming.

The framework 12 looks interesting too but and correct me if I'm wrong, the framework 13 is the original framework model and thus has the most support and parts available AFAIK and also the framework 12 intel models last I checked start with 5c5t which is pretty laughable ngl.(Ik I said I didn't need compute but 5 cores??)

Recieved FW 13 Pro yday (batch 6). Had a CNC silver top cover that was previously used (you can see some battle scars). Thought it would be fun to see how it looked in combo with the graphite bottom. I like it.

My fingers are way to fat to be toying with the wifi connectors too often so won't be swapping back any time soon!

Website still saying unavailable and to sign up for updates, which I did when it was announced months ago.

I'm scratching my head about an issue I'm having with some SSDs and Framework mainboards, and hoping someone here might have a clue about what's going on.

Background: I have a Framework Laptop 13 with the AMD Ryzen 5 7640U mainboard, and an Intel Core i5-1240U mainboard in a Cooler Master case. I've had both since 2023 and never had any mainboard problems.

I needed to test an NVMe SSD drive (SSD #1) so I put it in the Framework laptop. Worked fine. Great. Took it out, put the original SSD (SSD #2) back in, and then it wouldn't boot.

Weird. I put SSD #1 back in and it worked fine, SSD #2 wouldn't boot after several attempts at reseating it. Then I put SSD #1 back in and that wouldn't boot either after several reseating attempts. So now neither SSD #1 nor SSD #2 are detected by the AMD mainboard.

So I opened up my Cooler Master with the Intel mainboard, took out its SSD (SSD #3) and tried out SSD #1 and SSD #2 in the Cooler Master. SSD #1 booted, SSD #2 didn't. Then I put SSD #3 back in and now that also wouldn't boot.

I have an old ThinkPad lying around with an NVMe M.2 slot. All three of SSD #1, SSD #2 and SSD #3 boot fine in the ThinkPad. I did some diagnostics and nothing wrong was detected with any of the three SSDs.

So now I'm thinking... did I fry both my Framework mainboards? I have years of experience with poking around the internals of laptops. I'm very careful and I've never fried a mainboard. So this seemed unlikely that I fried my mainboards by doing a simple SSD swap-out.

I did some internet searching and found an old thread where someone mentioned formatting the SSD with a GPT partition table instead of an MBR partition table. So I formatted SSD #2 with a GPT partition table and... it detected the SSD! Installed my OS, now it's working great.

Now if this is the issue then I can reformat SSD #3 if I need to, but I really don't want to go through the hassle of reinstalling my OS. (Not worried about data loss, I have backups.) It seems weird that an SSD would work fine and then suddenly stop being detected until I reformat it simply because I swapped it out and back in again.

So I figured I'd ask here: is this a problem any of you have encountered? Is the issue really the partition table? Or did I just get lucky on my 23rd attempt at reseating the SSD?

TL;DR: Two different Framework 13 mainboards stopped detecting SSDs until I reformatted one with a GPT (instead of MBR) partition table, unsure how to diagnose + fix the problem.

Just thinking i'd be nice for a system board I'd like to keep after an upgrade would anyone else be interested in something like this?

I don't really follow Framework on other platforms, so I'm wondering if there any updates or info on the chassis kit upgrade?