Framework Laptop Mainboard

I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has on this. This is an initial set of documentation, and we'll prioritize writing/creating more based on what is most useful to enable Mainboard re-use.

My current laptop needs to be replaced really soon, I&#x27;m hoping Framework will announce either a recent AMD Ryzen or Intel&#x27;s Alder Lake. The difference between the 11th and 12th gen Intel is big enough I don&#x27;t want to spend the next three years regretting it.<p>Unfortunately Lenovo or Dell might get my budget if it looks like that&#x27;s not going to happen for a while. This laptop has had a few too many drops off of my bike (which is why repairability would be great!).

The 3D printable, open-source, case that allows you to use the mainboard as a standalone computer is such a nice touch! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FrameworkComputer&#x2F;Mainboard&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;Mechanical&#x2F;Printable%20Case" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FrameworkComputer&#x2F;Mainboard&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;Mec...</a>

Wow, these guys are awesome. Love to see a company take a new, and potentially long view towards customers and profitability. Most companies in their position would be jealously guarding this information and would be paranoid about cheap clones taking away their market&#x2F;customers. But this team is not.<p>Shows they are confident in their ability to not just rest on laurels, but continue to develop a platform, add value, and earn their customers business.<p>Now, if only we could get a lovely M1 Pro chip (or something like it) into their deserving hands! At the moment my Mac 16 Pro is unbelievably better than all the x86 competition out there ... except for the fact that its a totally proprietary and unrepairable black box.<p>I would love to see AMD, Nvidia, or a company like SiFive release something like the M1 Pro, and then an integrator like Framework put it all into a great package and finally give Apple the competition they need.

Oh, that&#x27;s cool - so you could use the mainboard as a SBC? Put a few of them in a case with a (big) PSU and some I&#x2F;O (storage, probably) and have a cluster-in-a-box?<p>Or, in the opposite direction, is this material enough to create a drop-in replacement board with, say, an ARM (or eventually RISC-V) processor that you could put in a Framework Laptop?

I hope these guys are around long enough to put out a V2 and I hope that V2 has some different screen options.<p>For me the resolution either needs to be ideal for 100% scaling or for 200% scaling, nothing in between.

The blog post has more information: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frame.work&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mainboard-availability-and-open-source-release" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frame.work&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mainboard-availability-and-open-sour...</a>

How to get an invoice?<p>For some strange reason it&#x27;s still not possible to get an invoice and people and businesses are having issues with that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.frame.work&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-get-an-invoice&#x2F;16033&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.frame.work&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-get-an-invoice&#x2F;16033&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.frame.work&#x2F;t&#x2F;where-can-i-find-my-invoice&#x2F;14021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.frame.work&#x2F;t&#x2F;where-can-i-find-my-invoice&#x2F;1...</a>

I&#x27;m 3 days in to using a Framework running Ubuntu as my main computer, switching from an XPS 13. So far, I&#x27;m delighted. Thank you for making this computer.

As if I didn&#x27;t have enough reason to be happy about my decision to buy a Framework, here they are, giving me yet another reason - and possibly even a reason to buy a spare mainboard for a tiny desktop.

This is incredibly cool. Love to see anything that encourages repair and reuse of parts that still have some life left in them!<p>If I hadn’t just recently bought a new laptop I’d likely be going for a Framework today, and provided they’re still around when it’s time for an upgrade it’ll probably be my next laptop. (I suspect it’ll be a while before I need a new one though.)

I’ve gotten into handtool woodworking somewhat deeply this year, and this is giving me serious desires to create a wooden chassis for something... retro.

Side note, I think the STL viewer in github is such a cool feature

Great stuff! Can&#x27;t wait for an old-man version that&#x27;s 15.6&quot;, 16&quot; or 17&quot; :)

Surprised to see the prebuilt laptops come with windows. I was expecting Ubuntu or some other mainstream Linux distro.<p>I assume a large segment of users install Linux? How does the trackpad experience compare to macOS?

I would buy this laptop once my current laptop dies (don&#x27;t want to produce unnecessary e-waste) if it had coreboot. Until then, I&#x27;m planning to use system76. I&#x27;m conflicted between that though, because I want to support small business, but I&#x27;m not sure which one to support!

The Framework pricing seems crazy, it&#x27;d cost about 2400 euros to get it in my country (where it isn&#x27;t sold directly atm). That&#x27;s over 2 months of discretionary spending (net income after mortgage + student debt).<p>And it doesn&#x27;t offer an ISO keyboard either.<p>For 2400 euros I could almost buy a whole computer, TV and an Xbox...

Big fan, few small things.<p>AMD models, and maybe even arm64 mainboards would be lit.<p>16 inch variant, black and white options.<p>Oh, and if possible, coreboot please.<p>Keep up the good work, you have my money

This announcement&#x27;s quite neat on its own. But if the board had an exposed PCIe connector, they&#x27;d be fantastic to build a SFF PC around.

I welcome the approach here it&#x27;s much better.<p>I think the company has some way to go yet in terms of maturing overall as a laptop manufacturer. You can see a few of the problems on here e.g. invoices, old cpu ...etc. To me though the biggest problem is that there laptop isn&#x27;t really bringing any feature that&#x27;s new to the table.<p>The repair-ability is awesome don&#x27;t get me wrong but getting a laptop repaired isn&#x27;t something new it&#x27;s just they&#x27;ve made that part easier.<p>Example here is the new M1 macbooks have insane battery life, excellent touchpad &#x2F; gesture support, insanely thin. Asus Rog make crazy fast gaming laptops with almost desktop like performance and still in a reasonable looking form factor. Dell make really cheap (and shit) laptops with amazing availability. System76 make linux based laptops.<p>I could go on but I think if they want to survive as a company they need something more than &quot;it&#x27;s easy to repair&quot;.

I wish I could justify buying a laptop from Framework because I like what they do and would like to support them.

How long until we see someone cluster 10 of these in a 4U rack?

This might be a tangent. Do you have any plans for eink display modules for the Framework laptop? I know it’s a niche and the eink panels are expensive, but it would be amazing for a portable machine.

Are these going to start shipping to Australia within the next 2~3 months?

I would love to buy one of these and hack it into something absurd, if only I had the money to burn!<p>Love what you&#x27;re doing Framework, I will purchase one of your products in the future for sure :)

This is rather cool. I sometimes think about using a laptop motherboard in a custom built case and pushing the CPU&#x2F;GPU to their limits (no bueno without that, BIOS must allow full voltage&#x2F;TPL control).<p>Is it practical? Maybe if you want a very thin&#x2F;light&#x2F;quiet desktop that can run a long time on a built-in battery... otherwise, just an interesting project and a way to reuse older laptop boards.

Nice to see the mechanical designs getting published.<p>Has anyone yet designed an adapter board for fitting rpi compute module 4 in the case?

It would be interesting if you can build something like Mac Studio desktop for linux.

16 inch, 500 nits matte screen, better CPU and Linux as first class citizen.

Was looking forward to this. Excited to see what people can make with an easily available high powered SBC.

Is there any way to get two 10gbe Intel nics on one of these?

This is so cool!

That&#x27;s how you do it!

will this laptop ever ship with a non-US keyboard layout? The enter key is so bad on them, I hate that it is long and not high. Dealbreaker unfortunately, wish I could buy one of these.

Oh. Intel, huh?

It&#x27;s really sad that we got so low that something so trivial gets to the front page. Where are schematics, board layouts, BOM? I am not even mentioning &quot;Theory of operation&quot; sections and &quot;Calibration&quot; which was quite common decades ago.