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it’s nearly two pounds heavier, 3 inches wider, and 1.5 inches deeper. Adding the graphics module adds another two-thirds of a pound and almost an inch of extra depth.
Ill take that over non upgradable and more importantly non repairable laptop that becomes e waste.
Yep. I have the 13" and it’s lightweight and portable… If I got the 16" I wouldn’t count those things missing and “being a bit bigger” as a downside. That’s kind of the point isn’t it?
Agreed. Thin and light would be great if they offered any kind of reparability but framework is still new. The fact the company is doing well at all is pretty impressive imo.
I planed on getting one but atm i dont think i can justify it.
How do you like it? You running Windows or Linux?
I love it. It’s first gen, so has some of the early adopter quirks, but it’s my favorite laptop ever, hands down. Next laptop will most likely be a framework again.
I run both Windows 11 and Linux (Ubuntu 23.10 currently). Windows works as you’d expect. On Linux, everything works out of the box. Scaling the display to 125% or 150% is a bit of a gamble though, but that’s not the laptop’s fault.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Now that the Framework Laptop 13 has been through three refresh cycles—including one that swapped from Intel’s CPUs to AMD’s within the exact same body—the company is setting its sights on something bigger.
In some ways, the people who use these kinds of systems need a Framework Laptop most of all; they’re an even bigger investment than a thin-and-light laptop, and a single CPU, GPU, memory, or storage upgrade can extend the useful life of the system for years, just like upgrading a desktop.
The Laptop 16 melds ideas from the original Framework Laptop with some all-new mechanisms for customizing the device’s keyboard, adding and upgrading a dedicated GPU, and installing other modules.
The result is a relatively bulky and heavy laptop compared to many of its non-upgradeable alternatives.
And you’ll need to trust that Framework delivers on its upgradeability promises somewhere down the line since the current options for upgrading and expanding the laptop are fairly limited.
But the company has done a great job of building trust with the Framework Laptop 13—if you don’t mind the design of the Laptop 16, there’s a reasonably good chance you’ll have appealing upgrades to grab.
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