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.
For me
A minor complaint is that I find the trackpad kinda mid. It isn’t bad by any means, probably the best non-apple trackpad I’ve ever used, but the Apple trackpad is better by a mile still
really? the speakers work pretty fine for me, I can hear them over the fans. but then again, I am in a kind of noisy house.
I have the Ryzen 7 version. I’ve noticed the battery life is quite a bit better in Windows. I use Fedora as my daily OS, but Windows does seem to manage the battery/performance/power stuff better (which is a shame).
Speakers are very loud on mine, however quality not amazing. Although I have never owned a laptop with amazing speakers. Even my HP Elitebook 840 G laptop that cost around £1400 that has B&O speakers are not great either, no worse than my Framework.
MacBook Pro speakers are crazy good
I think the AMD version is more power efficient for sure
I plan to swap to AMD in a few years and get a bigger battery. That’s why i really love Framework
That for me though means owning a mac, which is just something I cannot bring myself to ever do again :)