Unless there’s any major pain point with the current design, they will keep it. I could see them making a shell that has more slots for expansion cards, and make it so that future mobos could take advantage of that, or just have some.inaccessible slots if stuck into an OG shell.

Thanks for the info.

As a FW16 batch 2 person, I’m guessing all these issues will likely affect the 16 as well, and will get fixed for both laptops at the same time? The APUs are the game other than thermal limits right?

I’ve had soooo many cases of FedEx delivering my stuff to one of my neighbors. I do occasionally get my neighbor’s packages too. Even though we all have well labeled houses.

Additionally FedEx does shit like give you some reasonable shipping date, then it gets delayed by 2 days, then when the delay ends up being only 1 day, they pat themselves on the back for an “early” delivery. The math ain’t mathing bro.

Yeah part of what Framework wants to do is keep stable prices. That means overcharge for volatile components.

It runs great on the Steam Deck, so should be even better on the FW.

How many batches were slated for Q4 again? It sounds like best case scenario they finish validation by end of month, and then they get maybe 4 weekly batches out this year.

Ok lads. Do we think they’re gonna fulfill all FW13 pre-orders before they start doing the 16s, or will they start the 16s soon?

I can see it going either way. Batches are about a week apart now, so they’d be done by end of November at current pace I think. Although… Thanksgiving? Then in Dec they need to get out ~4 FW16 batches? But I’m not sure how many FW16 batches are slated for Q4, and also… Xmas.

So it looks like it kinda just barely works to do all the 13s then all the 16s. But realistically I’d expect them to try and to push out FW16 batches 1&2 in Nov, then work on ramping up 16s as they ramp down the 13s.