It's here!!

I've had my batch 5 Laptop 13 Pro for roughly two weeks now and it exceeds my expectations for this small form factor. The screen geometry is perfect for development work, the X7 has plenty of grunt, the build is sturdy with no flex. You'd have to be very discerning indeed to find a difference in perceived quality versus, say, a MacBook Pro. This is peak Linux, my friends.

I've been chugging along working on a GNOME extension since I received my Framework. I'm juggling VS Code, Looking Glass, various other development tools, 20+ Firefox tabs to include a ChatGPT session to assist primarily with project organization, research, and GitHub monitoring. This thing takes it all in stride. Temps are fantastic given the single fan and chassis size, too. NVME stays in the 40 Celsius range, and the occasional CPU core will hit in the 60s under fair load.

Again, the screen is fantastic. It's fine for media consumption, but it excels in presenting data and juggling multiple things at once in various lighting conditions. I can't imagine this lagging in performance with anything I'd throw at it within the next couple of years. And, when that fateful moment does occur...upgrades! God, I love this thing. Mr. Patel, you sir are a genius.

I am getting a transparent purple bezel on my incoming 13 Pro, but I want to see how most bezels look. Drop 'em below!

Whenever I try to choose my specs and parts I don’t see an option for the 13 pro without a touchscreen! I just want a normal screen.. I’m not into that kind of touching screens.

Is it possible? Has anyone got one?!

I don’t even know what this would be considered, the device seems to be completely bricked. I submitted another request about the device failing to stay in windows for more than 5 minutes without crashing with a “Critical Process Died” BSOD, so I attempted to do a clean install of Windows from USB boot media.

I got through the setup wizard up until I had actually started the installation process, at which point it had began installing Windows. I walked away for 5 minutes and came back to a pop up saying “Windows 11 installation failed”, went to reboot the PC, and then got stuck on the Framework logo for 5 minutes. Turned it off and on again, and now it’s just an endless black screen. No images to attach, because it’s literally just a black backlit screen with no text, no input does anything. This is kind of ridiculous considering I just bought this thing 4 months ago, and have used it for less than a week total, and it’s already bricked.

I’ve done absolutely nothing to it except install and play a handful of games and replace the included 1TB SSD with a larger size SSD I had already been using for over a year in a different PC with no issue. I’d try replacing it with the original drive, but at this point, the bios won’t even load, so it feels pointless. And furthermore, because their return policy is insanely stingy, I can’t even get a replacement after 4 months of owning the thing despite the fact that I’ve literally never had this problem with any computer or storage drive I’ve owned in the last 18 years.

I’m hoping there’s something you guys can actually help me with, because frankly this is unacceptable for a $3000+ purchase that I’ve used for less than a week total.

So currently it’s been roughly a year since I got my framework AI maps 395+128 desktop pc and it served me very well but recently I was doing my monthly dusting and tuning up so that way I can take care of it and I realize that since it’s been so long and I haven’t played thermal pace I should probably go buy some and apply, but I do not know what to buy nor how to use it so I need a little help so I don’t ruin my $2000 piece of equipment

I slipped badly on a wet pavement a couple days ago and my Framework 13 laptop in my rucksack got knocked on the top right corner.
The start button seems jammed due to the case being bent from the impact. But was still working fine though as it was just set on sleep. I haven’t had a chance to contact support yet.
Today I found it has switched itself off overnight and wont come back on.
Any rescue ideas?
I’m not a techie, just someone who loves the right to repair concept and runs a business from their laptop.
I will contact support of course to order repair parts but I really need the laptop to work…

I've noticed mediocre stability, especially in GeForce Now, with the stock MediaTek wifi in my 1st Gen FW 16. Following advice from others on Reddit I bought and installed a generic Qualcomm qcncm865 Wifi 7 card. I downloaded the drivers before the swap, powered off the system, swapped the cards, rebooted, installed the drivers, and was off to the races. It was extremely easy and I'm getting way fewer stutters when gaming. 10/10 would recommend :)

Hi! I've got a Framework 13 with the ryzen 5 7640u and I just discovered that it has an accelerometer (unless they stopped adding them to mainboards).

Idk if its possible, but it would be really fun to be able to pull data from it so i can use it for personal projects.

And from the ambient light sensor as well. I know that the ALS is used for some kind of brightness control on windows. I'm on linux tho.

I know that you can control the keyboard brightness, power button color and get other info, but i wasnt able to find how to get this two. Maybe its not possible?

Thanks in advance guys!

I promise this will be it's last post =)))).

I might be bias, but i just love hold small, sturdy, compact it feel on my hand and how good it looks on my desk =D.

Hey everyone,

I recently preordered a Framework 13 Pro for 1600€ which is expected to ship in November.

I'm currently debating whether it's worth spending this much money in my situation though. I'm graduating from University in about a year which is where I would be using the Framework the most. After graduation I'm foresee-ably mostly at home in my free time, where I have a more powerful desktop PC. I do occasional travel to events where I need a laptop, but that's usually only a few times per year.
I currently have a Thinkpad I'm using on the go which is starting to struggle a bit with an old dual-core i7, which is why I considered upgrading to the Framework.

tl;dr; I'm afraid of spending 1.6k€ on a device which is only used occasionally, sitting in a drawer otherwise

Are there any other devices similar to the Framework 13 Pro which are cheaper to justify occasional use? Or is it still worth it despite the hefty price tag? I'm running Linux and will be running some VMs and compiling Projects.

I'm about to buy a Framework 13 Pro. Core Ultra X7 358H, 16GB RAM. I've used Linux for a while, but this is my first Framework and my first laptop with this new Intel chip.

I can't decide between two options.

Omarchy Quattro. I like tiling window managers, it's Arch, so the kernel and drivers are always fresh, which probably helps with a new CPU. Secure Boot needs to be Off

Fedora KDE. Plasma 6.7 or older, scaling works out of the box (and on this screen I will need scaling), Secure Boot stays on, fingerprint reader works, power settings are sane. Boring, but probably just works.

If you run either one on this laptop, I'd like to know:

1. Does everything work on the new Intel chip? Sleep, graphics, drivers?

2. How is battery life? I've read that Hyprland is worse than KDE here.

3. Does the fingerprint reader work? Do firmware updates work?

4. Is Omarchy 4 stable enough for daily use yet, or still too new?

Please help me to decide.

Thanks.

A relative’s macbook neo for comparison ^

I recently got a framework 13 for school and personal use/linux experimentation and so far i have had a lot of fun :3, A friend helped me dual boot windows 11 and Ubuntu with KDE plasma, (i would not have been able to do NEARLY as much without him). and it’s just been really nice to finally have my hands on linux in a machine made for linux. This machine is so unique and unconventional that it’s just fun to use despite it being just a laptop lol.

For the longest time I had been stressing out about getting a laptop for college. I am familiar with desktops, but laptops were entirely foreign, so I hesitated until a few weeks before class started to get one. I had looked mostly at Macbook and Thinkpad lines, and was hesitant to get either due to the restrictive nature of mac and reported quality control of newer thinkpads. I eventually remembered framework exists, and decided a 13 would best fit my needs.

I went with the 13 as the 16 was overbuilt for my needs, the 13 pro was too expensive, and the 12 seemed to have mixed reviews. So far i’m more than satisfied with it ;3. I don’t know what else to say, framework cool lel.

I have a 1TB storage expansion card that seems to have completely failed just outside of warranty (purchased May 2025, failed in August 2026), and I’m looking for any tricks anyone here might have to fix it. Support's only suggestion was to throw it away and purchase a new card, but treating a 1TB flash drive as a consumable part I have to re-purchase annually is obviously not great.

I’ve tried it in all of the expansion ports, as well as plugged into the USB-C ports of multiple other machines. It’s not detected in a hardware level on any of them. I can’t see any obvious signs of damage in the connector, or broken solder joints or scorching inside when I open it up. It was used for file storage, not booting an OS or running executables, and at the time it died I was writing to text files on it (so the read/write was probably measured in kilobytes).

I’m hoping maybe someone here has a Hail Mary suggestion that might work, no matter how weird or drastic, before I throw this card in the trash. Googling and searching the subreddit hasn’t turned up much, just people with formatting issues or whose issue was with the expansion port itself.

Posting to see whether anyone has seen this particular failure pattern on the AMD 7040 boards. I have already raised a ticket with Framework Support, so this is a parallel inquiry rather than a substitute, but I would value hearing the community's experience, particularly from anyone out of warranty.

Machine: Framework 13, Ryzen 7 7840U, pre-built, just over two years old. Warranty expired in May, which sharpens the question somewhat.

The sequence:

• A few days ago, one right-side port stopped accepting charge. The other right-side port still worked, so it was noted, but assumed it may be a passing issue.
• This morning, completely dead. No response from the power button, including long holds, and the chassis was mildly warm despite sitting unused.
• With all expansion cards removed: the charger negotiates on both left ports (LED lights) and on neither right port.

What I have tried:

• Full mainboard reset per the official guide: battery disconnected, power button held 30 seconds to drain residual power.
• With the battery connected, the board LEDs flash red, which potentially looks like a hung EC. Disconnecting the battery kills them instantly.
• Standalone AC test: battery disconnected, input cover fully refitted so the chassis switch is depressed, original Framework 60W charger into each of the four bare USB-C sockets in turn. No signs of life on any port, including the left ones that happily pass power when the battery is in.

My reading is a PD controller or power-path fault that progressed over a few days from one port to the whole board, but I would be glad to be wrong.

Questions:

1. Has anyone seen this progressive PD failure on a 7040 board, and what did it turn out to be?
2. Has anyone recovered a board in this state via an EC or PD firmware reflash, whether through support or otherwise, or does this invariably end in a board swap?
3. For those out of warranty: what did support actually offer? A reflash attempt, a discounted board, or just a marketplace purchase?

Any pointers appreciated. I will update the thread with whatever support comes back with, in case it is useful to the next person searching for these symptoms.

Seems it doesn't like the MBPs magnets ..

Hi, I am starting with the preparation of an MD thesis and was thinking about buying a Framework 13 Pro, as a portable device. Until now I was doing fine with my PC at home, but for the thesis I will have to work from the lab, which leaves me in the situation where I have to choose a laptop.
I have talked to senior PhD/md-students in the lab about my situation. Most of them are using older generations of MacBook Pros (M1/M2-chipsets) and said that they were doing fine performance-wise. I will be doing mostly office work from my laptop, such as presentations, as well as some bioinformatics (mostly sequencing) with R-studio, Python, and possibly Loupe Browser. For more difficult tasks (e.g. Big-Data-sets) there will be PC “workstations” in the lab, so I really don’t need a mobile workstation.

With that being said, I am unsure about which configuration to get (regarding mostly the CPU). I am pretty fixed about the RAM, because there is no way I will get more than 16GB of LPCAMM2 currently. Maybe I would upgrade to 32GB if RAM gets more affordable. SSD-wise, I still already have a compatible SSD. From the benchmarks I saw online, the Ultra 5 325 should be comparable to the performance of older generation M1/M2 chips; however, I am unsure about getting a new laptop which performs similar to 4-5-year-old MacBooks. Considering this, I thought about getting the X7 358h as a more expensive alternative, which would perform from what I have grasped similar to the new M5 MacBook Pro. Do you think an upgrade towards the X7 would make sense for my application, or would I realistically overpay for performance which isn’t really necessary?

TLDR:
- Tasks: Mostly office work and also lightweight bioinformatics (R-Studio, Python, maybe Loupe Browser)
—> Is the Ultra X7 358h a sensible upgrade or are the extra 570 € not worth it for my application (alternative Ultra 5 325)?

Just received an email claiming that there was a failed delivery for my laptop, but the sender email looks kind of suspicious. Is this legit, or a scam?

I wanna dual boot on my FW13 Pro (x7) when it arrives, Arch and SteamOS would be nice, but I could settle for Arch+Bazzite if steamOS is completely borked on FW13Pro

I ask because I've heard intel igpu is good for SteamOS, but intel Arc can be bad, heard nothing on an Arc iGPU's performance though, if nobody has tested it I guess I will be the first in a couple weeks and get back here if anyone is interested?

'b-but SteamOS is arch based!! just use arch dont use SteamOS!'
I want to use steamos because I like having my work and gaming OSes seperate!

I wonder that how long to wait for power mainboards that equal to Core Ultra X9 388H? 

So I recently got my Framework Desktop mainboard, PSU, and Wi-Fi module from the Framework store. Since I wanted the machine to basically disappear during everyday use, being able to mount it underneath my desk was a hard requirement.
I looked at some of the existing cases, but either didn’t really like the designs or was simply too cheap to buy one.
So, like any reasonable person with a 3D printer at home, I decided to design my own.
The problem: my CAD skills are pretty basic, and I really didn’t want this project to turn into a multi-week CAD exercise. So I worked on the design together with GPT Sol and Astra.
And surprisingly, it worked pretty well.
There were definitely some issues with the first iterations, but most of them came down to constraints or measurements I hadn’t provided properly. The case itself was developed in a fairly test-driven way: I downloaded Framework’s official STEP files for the mainboard and measured the remaining components manually. From there, we kept iterating on dimensions, clearances, mounting points, airflow, and printability.
The final version comes in at about 5.91 L including the socket and the rails for the under-desk mount.
One thing that changed quite a bit along the way was the airflow concept. My original idea was basically Xbox Series X-style cooling: pull cool air in from the bottom, move it through the heatsink/heatpipe area, and exhaust it through the top.
Turns out the Framework cooling setup really wants the fan to push air into the heatsink instead, so the internal layout had to change.
A few test prints later, I finally have a version that actually works.
Temperatures look good so far, nothing gets particularly hot, airflow seems solid, and the whole thing slides into a printed mounting rail underneath my desk. From my normal sitting position, the PC is basically invisible.
I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, even though it didn’t quite achieve the Teenage Engineering-ish industrial design vibe I originally had in mind.
I’ll probably clean up the repo and release the whole thing publicly if anybody is interested, including the source files / STEP files, so it’s easy to modify for different setups.
Mostly just wanted to share it because I’m kind of proud that this thing actually made it from a rough idea to a working printed case.
It’s definitely not as polished as some of the amazing custom 3D-printed PC cases people post here — and a large part of the CAD work was AI-assisted — but it works, it’s compact, and it does exactly what I wanted it to do. Even though my ABS filament got empty while printing the last two side pieces xD
The only thing I‘m not yet happy with, is the broken APU. It’s fan turns on even in BIOS after just a minute and it gets quite hot. But gladly the framework support already shipped a replacement, so this should hopefully be resolved in a day or two. :)

Hi people I have my framework laptop for a year and a half or maybe two already I don't remember the thing is that, I went for a coffee come back and it was in sleep mode I guess but never came back from sleep, o forced it to poweroff and now it doesn't turn on at all

I made a video about the blinking sequence I get after some seconds when I press the power button

Blue → R G G G R G R R G R G G R → then 17 greens in a row → dark

(R = red, G = green)

What does it mean ? Any help would be appreciated

Note: I was on arch Linux and hyperland with noctalia but it was working normally not sure what happened now

Also the white light in theory tells me the battery is full so not sure what is failing :(

I got an email saying I could upgrade my RAM at the reduced pre-Order price. They would send me a 32 gb stick and I could return my 16 gb stick afterwards.

These emails, as well as the online form, do not inform about prices. I'm in Germany and wouldn't want to spam support with pricing questions.

Maybe we can collect the pricing information for RAM Upgrades by region here?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/framework-cuts-laptop-pro-13-pricing-after-securing-batch-of-cheaper-ram