The refund for my Framework 13 is complete! It was a pretty easy process from start to finish. It took about 4 days from the laptop's delivery to the "Refund successful" e-mail.
I was also able to do a partial refund, keeping a few of the expansion cards and use them in the Framework 16 instead.
Watching #Fedora use a #FrameworkLaptop in all of the desktop and laptop marketing makes me feel real good about my Framework purchase a couple years ago.
Ale powiem szczerze, że za drogo. Myślę, że ciężko będzie, żeby zwykły użytkownik, czy nawet bardziej profesjonalny, wydał 7 tysięcy złotych na laptop 16" bez dysku i OS-a. Wiem, że można na nim bezproblemowo zainstalować Windows, ale czy taki komputer wystarczy do zadań profesjonalnych?
Ktoś może powiedzieć, że przecież MacBooki Pro są droższe, ale zauważmy, że one mają bardzo dobry system operacyjny, który jest świetnie dopasowany do konkretnego sprzętu i sprawdza się znakomicie. Prawda jest taka, że w przypadku Maka nie płaci się za sprzęt, a przede wszystkim za system (i proszę mi tu nie wyjeżdżać z żadnym Hackintoshem – doskonale wiemy jak to się sprawdza!).
Inną rzeczą jest też jakość wykonania komputera. Z tego co czytałem w recenzjach, są jakieś problemy z klawiaturą i można je rozwiązać podkładając pod nią gąbki, ale myślę, że sprzęt za tę kasę nie powinien mieć takich problemów. Poza tym jest też touchpad, który jest mały i uważam, że powinien być chociaż moduł z większym.
Ale też jak patrzę na te laptopy, na zdjęciach czy filmach, to nie mam poczucia, że patrzę na sprzęt klasy premium, zwłaszcza jak jest otwarty. Może to ja za dużo czasu spędzam z MacBookiem, ale mam wrażenie, że nowoczesny laptop nie powinien mieć tak okropnych ramek. Wiem, że komputer ma po prostu działać, ale moim zdaniem to trochę wpływa na Komfort pracy. Ale nawet możemy to pominąć, myślę, że argumenty, które przedstawiłem w poprzednim akapicie są wystarczająco
Moim zdaniem jest to świetny pomysł na komputer, ale zbyt drogi i nie do końca przemyślany. Albo po prostu grupa docelowa jest nieprzemyślana. Gdyby istniał wariant, który kosztowałby 5 tysięcy (cały czas mówię o wersji 16") to myślę, że znalazłaby się grupa osób, która by zainwestowała w to urządzenie, ale obawiam się, że w tym momencie w Polsce nie będzie zbyt wielu użytkowników tego sprzętu.
PS.
I brakuje mi modułu obsługującego Windows Hello
This has been my only significant concern with Framework laptop ownership thus far. (There hasn't yet been a stable firmware release for Linux users in the 13+ months I've had my laptop.)
Has anyone in #Canada ordered a #FrameworkLaptop? I’ve been toying with the idea but I’ve recently had issues with importing much less expensive stuff.
Did you have to pay duty and fees if just ordering direct?
I hope @frameworkcomputer can get this sorted, mine pretty much has to go back in the drawer for a while until either firmware updates or future hardware revisions are available.
I hope this can be resolved. I really do want Framework and companies like them to succeed.
I may have to grab an Intel-based Dell for a while so that I have something reliable when away from home.
Hooray, my s2idle tests on the #FrameworkLaptop 16 have finished running!
In case you were wondering,
Yes, the system is capable of going into s2idle (or whatever AMD calls it today) out of the box on Linux.
Average system power draw in sleep appears to be 72 mA. This is with the power LED pulsing; I will try shutting that off next.
At the battery's design capacity of 5,491 mAh, this is about 3 days. That's not long enough for me, so I'll try a deeper (but slower to resume) sleep state.
The replacement keyboard has shipped from within the country, so it'll probably be here late this week.
On the light sensor, support replied asking me for the photos I had literally just provided in the previous message. So I sent them again. They appear to have been accepted this time. I was not asked to try rebooting my computer this time, which is good.
I'm sure they're swamped and likely outgrowing their CRM. It happens. We'll see.
For ~both people out there who care: after some more Linux-level power management work, the #FrameworkLaptop 16 baseline power consumption with the display on at all is about 5.8 W (EPP set for "power", wifi on, display at 60Hz system idle). That's about 14hrs. (Screen off: 3.43 W/24hrs)
Backlight up to an indoor level for me: 6.2 W / 14hrs
Screen to 165 Hz: +1.5W.
External USB keyboard because the keyboard Framework sent you is broken: +1W.
Continuing to methodically check out my #FrameworkLaptop 16 since their QC seems iffy. Noticed my ambient light sensor didn't work.
Under the microscope, it was pretty clear why: it's missing.
Not "missing" as in not installed -- "missing" as in "has been physically torn from the circuit board, destroying pads in the process." At some point in assembly before its protective cover was glued on.
Here are the totally unnecessary but awesome LED matrix panels next to my broken keyboard. Both are displaying a brightness ramp. From the factory, they look like the one on the left -- not much of a ramp, because there's no gamma correction.
Fortunately this is not my first LED rodeo, so I have code for this -- and the firmware's in Rust.
Fixed version on the right, PR submitted. Gamma coefficient isn't perfect but it's better.
I recently bought a Ryzen #FrameworkLaptop 13" DIY Edition. I was quite disappointed when I found that only one of the 4 USB-C expansion bays worked, worried that I had damaged something in the DIY part. Contacted support, they guided me through a few troubleshooting steps, and now all 4 bays work as expected. Kudos @frameworkcomputer!
I need the #Unifying#dongle (lower latency), but don't want it sticking out and losing a whole slot.
So I'm going to throw a USB hub and the peeled dongle on a PCB and hope it all works out :D
As a further experiment, I routed the USB A SS lines past the hub (USB 2 D+/D- connected to port 1 of the hub).
Not sure if this will play nice with USB drivers, but it's worth a try.
It features room for 2-3 skinned dongles while still providing an external USB A 3 port.
I tested it and it works like a charm* !
The receiver and different USB 2 and even USB 3 devices worked on the first attempt.
Massive props to @frameworkcomputer for making the whole development process very easy, with all needed information already public and even supplying a base 3D-printing-ready #ExpansionCard model.
So, I finally got my Framework Laptop. A day early, too! Beautiful machine, I must say. I put the RAM and SSD in, followed the instructions and I made my choice of operating system.
I hesitated a lot between @fedora and Elementary, but in the end, I went with Fedora because it was recommended and I love @gnome. When @elementary 8 releases, I'll make sure to check it out, though.
Battery life has been surprisingly good! I've done a lot of things on it today, lots of downloading, opening and closing stuff, with constant downloading and music streaming in the background. I've been losing around 10% per hour.
Honestly, it's all good hardware side. I'm still not a fan of the keyboard which could be a deal breaker as this is the one thing that I'm stupidly picky with, but I think I just need to get used to it.
My issues are more with the software and on that, there isn't much the @frameworkcomputer team can do.
First off, the animations in GNOME just aren't smooth and I can't seem to figure out why, I'm never getting that buttery smooth 60 fps scrolling, for exemple. But I can deal with this.
No, my two big gripes for now, are : Scrolling speed. I've looked it up and I found people complaining about of a simple "scroll speed" adjuster in GNOME for years. It's a massive issue right now, scrolling is just ridiculously sensitive and because I'm not a very technical person, I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. :(
Another thing is... what's up with #electron apps? I use three. Notesnook, Cider 2 for Apple Music and #Signal. All three look blurry.
Notesnook takes it one step further by being especially weird at this. I used two versions of the app. The Flatpak. And the Appimage. Both have their own annoyances. The flatpak is crisp af, I love it, BUT... it's header is light theme only, not following the theme of GNOME and the mouse cursor gets either huge or tiny when using it. The Appimage though, follows the theme correctly, has normal size cursor... but is a blurry mess.
@notesnook Is this something you can fix? Or is this just out of your control?
It's my understanding that Electron apps and Wayland are not into each other? I hope they accept one another soon and kiss, because this is really bothering me. And I hate that I don't know how to contribute to this, so I'm sitting here. Complaining. While not contributing anything. Like an asshole. :(