[tcandens]

I've loved mine. Some issues with the heat management and fans--but that's also been a Linux/laptop thing--fresh thermal paste, a new (warranted!) fan replacement part, and finally figuring out best drivers setup have brought it roughly in line with a Dell or whatever. Really enjoyed when I recently upgraded the memory on my tower last year, and threw the old ones on the Framework and it worked great. The expansion slots are a bit gimmicky but still surprisingly useful--when my wfh setup changed recently it was simple to change the mDP over to the other side and then never having to think about a dongle.

But I plan to actually upgrade the motherboard this year, so we'll see how that goes and looking forward to reading others experiences.

[vaylian]

> but that's also been a Linux/laptop thing--fresh thermal paste, a new (warranted!) fan replacement part,

Is there a (video-)guide on how to do that? Why was the fan replacement warranted?

[tcandens]

Their team is pretty active in their forums, so after some comments I was directed to request a replacement and turns out my laptop was part of a batch that had some known fan issues--so they sent a fan and some thermal paste no charge. Have read a lot of similar accounts of them making things right, I assume it was part of working out bugs and not overall production issues.

[ben-schaaf]

Framework have extensive, ifixit-style guides on their website: https://guides.frame.work/c/Framework_Laptop