It’s the same design as last year, the main changes are the new chips (Wildcat Lake), so better performance and power efficiency, the backlit keyboard (which happens to use open-source ZMK firmware), and a fingerprint reader that will work OOTB on Linux!

However, it’s still using the same display that has not so great colours (they are “working on it”, but no schedule for when it’ll be released), and memory prices make it too expensive for anybody who doesn’t already have RAM and storage available. For the people upgrading from the old gen, it’s kind of neat that you can just get the fingerprint reader, main board, or backlit keyboard.

It’s also really neat that it will ship with Fedora OOTB, and the prebuilt is now the Sage colourway since they found that to be the most popular over grey (hooray for colourful computers!)

  • sbeak@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
    7·
    12 hours ago

    Honestly, if it weren’t for the memory crisis making every computer a difficult buy, I would probably switch to the Framework 12. My current laptop is a 13th gen Intel and the battery has degraded by a lot, so having the new chip bump with the better power efficiency would be nice for battery life. It would be far more repairable as well than my current machine, an Asus which unfortunately has soldered memory and a nightmare to take open. I also much prefer a fingerprint sensor over facial recognition. I have no qualms about the plastic fantastic of the FW12, more fun colours is awesome, and it looks very sturdy and durable from what I can. And just like my old machine, it would still be a convertible with a stylus and backlit keyboard!

    The only thing I’m worried about is the display quality, as my current laptop has an OLED display with really good colours, so going to the FW12 would be a pretty big downgrade. Hopefully they are able to fix that sometime in the future once the memory crisis is over, since that is definitely the main gripe of most customers (they highlighted it in their video too as the most common complaint!)

    • j3tt@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 hours ago

      If I would use my private mobile computer from Lenovo more and it would break today, I would definitly look at a Framework. They look so nice and set themselfs apart from so many other computers.

      My work laptop is also Lenovo; Framework is just too expensive to get it as work laptop (even before the ramcolypse); maybe in 5 years I can ask for one. ^^