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What are your major criticisms of the framework laptop? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by guyizda@alien.top to c/framework@hardware.watch

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I am considering a purchase as a student although it is really expensive.

What are your major criticisms of the framework laptop?

E.g.

- I have heard that it discharges battery even while powered off (a very serious issue IMO).

Also, I will be using win10/11 and fedora most likely. So any Linux-related issues (e.g. hardware support) I would really like to know.

Thanks for any ideas.

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[–] JennyDarukat@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The AMD variant is still very unstable. I've seen more than a few people speak about repeated bluescreening, in my own case with no discernable cause (no dump files being generated).

When it works, it's seriously amazing between the performance, battery life and noiseless operation under day to day use. But it is a first gen product. On the chassis and handling side, I'm extremely happy, though I would have preferred a 14" 16:10 display but that one is a preference thing - the 3:2 is still very nice, if with a pretty high latency.

I hope they manage to figure it out and make the platform stable sooner rather than later because I want this to be my only computer, and the only thing stopping it is the growth issues. Wouldn't have minded if they'd kept it in the oven a while longer to figure it out tbh.