Been running my first-batch Framework 16 hard and noticed the temps creeping up. Opened it up and saw the factory liquid metal had dried out.

I'm a big fan of the modular design, but I needed a thermal solution that's set it and forget it for my gaming needs. Decided to swap it for a PTM7950 pad.

Honestly, it was the easiest thermal mod I've ever done. Used some high purity isopropyl to get the old junk off and the pad went on clean. No mess, no stress about spills, and way less anxiety than dealing with liquid metal on the road. Temps are back where they should be and it's been solid since I finished the job.

If you're running one of the early units and seeing numbers climb, just do the swap. It's worth it. Anyone else done this or still trusting the stock stuff?

I'm interested in the new pro chassis/screen/trackpad cbut don't need bleeding edge performance. How much can I save by going with a last gen main board, RAM, NVME etc? What would that cost?

One of my concerns when considering the 13 was needing to be careful by storing with a cloth covering the keyboard during transport. What do you think?

As the title says, I am wondering if there is such marketplace, except eBay or course.

I got the 13 with the low end AMD setup, and I was wondering if I slowly started to upgrade if I can sell off some of my old parts or even buy parts from others in the future.

I got the Framework laptop 12 months ago and I really like it. Prior to this I've only ever used Macbooks. My issue is with Windows. I hate it. But as someone who honestly still has no idea how to use a PC, I'm intimidated by Linux. Everything I read about it has words I don't know. I'm a very casual computer user. I don't use it for work or anything, and I'm mostly just navigating stuff in a browser which is no problem. But when it comes time to actually interact with the Windows stuff it's not very intuitive.

Does anyone have a good source that might help me get over the learning curve with switching to Linux as someone who knows pretty much nothing about using PC's?

Or is there another reliable OS that I should look into?

Why is the Core Ultra 5 338H not an option? That's the one with 12 cores (4P+4E+4LPE) and the Arc B370 (10 Xe cores instead of 12 in the B390), right now there's a pretty big jump in price and capability between the Core Ultra 5 325 and the Core Ultra X7 358H, feels like a missed opportunity there.

Although I'm guessing that might be because the 338H is only ever so slightly cheaper than the 358H and therefore not worth the extra logistics work, since most if not all other manufacturers also seem to ignore it, but yeah it just makes the upgrade path look not as good coming from the Core Ultra 5 125H with 14 CPU cores (4P+8E+2LPE) and the 7 core Xe1 Arc iGPU, either I lose cores by going with the 325 or spend quite a bit more for the 358H.

Other than that nitpick, I like what Framework's been up to lately, with the rounded corner free 2.8K display, haptic touchpad, LPCAMM2 RAM and so on, makes me glad to have bought my Framework 13.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been building a multi-agent system in my spare time, and I just open-sourced the repository. I was getting tired of the standard text-in/text-out chat paradigm and wanted to build a genuinely situated AI—one that actually perceives the physical environment and my physiological state in real-time without hitting a single cloud API. Using my Framework 128GB desktop with an amd v620 32GB oculink via minis forum deg1.

Repository: [https://github.com/anitherone556-max/Project-Aurelia.git\]

The TL;DR:

Project Aurelia is a completely local, biometric-aware multi-agent architecture. It continuously reads my heart rate, respiration, proximity, and system thermals, translates those metrics into a "biological" state, and injects them into an 80B MoE executive model's behavior loop.

The Cognitive Stack & Hardware Setup

I’m running this across a split compute setup to guarantee background tasks don't starve the main conversational model:

• The Executive Cortex (80B MoE - Qwen3-Next-A3B): Runs on a Framework Desktop (Strix Halo) leveraging 96GB of unified system memory to eliminate PCIe bottlenecks. It handles the core reasoning, mood state, and UI delivery.
• The Sensory Thalamus (9B - Qwen3.5): Also in unified memory. This acts as a signal transduction layer. It takes raw hardware arrays from my sensors and translates them into clinical "biological" observations. (e.g., instead of feeding the 80B "HR: 120", it feeds it "[PULSE]: Spiking. Tense, racing rhythm"). This preserves the AI's persona and hides the hardware numbers.
• The Subconscious Action Engine (13B): Physically isolated on a Radeon Pro V620 connected via OCuLink. This loops in the background handling autonomous Python execution, web searches, and file parsing. Because it has dedicated silicon, it can run heavy reasoning loops without lagging the 80B.

The Sensor Pipeline (The Omni Hub)

• FMCW mmWave Radar (60GHz): Pulls raw I/Q signal data into a 20-second rolling buffer, using an FFT pipeline to extract my heart rate and respiration.
• VL53L1X LiDAR: Validates my physical presence and distance at the desk.
• HWiNFO Shared Memory: Reads actual CPU/GPU thermals. (I built a hardware-gated "Unstable" mood lock—the 80B cannot throw a crisis-level behavioral response unless the actual silicon thermals cross a danger threshold).

If my heart rate spikes, the Omni Hub detects the variance and fires a "Thalamic Interrupt" straight into the async orchestrator, forcing the 80B to drop its current task and react to my physiological state instantly.

Memory

It uses a hybrid RRF (Reciprocal Rank Fusion) memory engine combining ChromaDB for semantic search and SQLite FTS5 for exact BM25 keyword matching. I also built in a mood-congruent retrieval multiplier, so if the 80B shifts into an "Analytical" or "Protective" mood, it preferentially surfaces long-term memories encoded in that same state.

I built this solo over the last month. The FFT biometric extraction works well but is susceptible to motion artifacts, so I'm looking into VMD or CNN reconstruction next.

I’d love for this community to tear the architecture apart, test the logic, or fork it. Let me know what you think!

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I had the pleasure of using for a time, one of Dell's best, the speakers in the current gen XPS are perhaps the best of any 14 form factor laptop. Better than Apple for certian. ( I should know)

I sent it back this week;

I've had a FW 13 before, I enjoyed using it but I'm an apple gurlie (guy) at heart and want a premium product. I eventually sold it for an M2 Max MBP.
I eventually sold the MBP for the XPS14 and here I am again returning it for the FW13Pro less than 30days later.

I've been teetering on making the full jump to Linux, tried bazzite on my desktop and was pleased. The 13 pro being ubtuntu certified is intriguing.

The pro looks like that laptop I've been waiting for since frame works founding. no compromise in quality, no compromise in repairability or upgradeability. no compromise in featrures, at a fair value.

RIP Memory/SSD prices seems to be the only downside.

no questions here just pure excitement!

I know this is unlikely, but if you could remove the speakers is there another battery that would fill the space (thus being larger). I have headphones connected to my laptop 24/7 (ADA stuff) -- so speakers are kind of pointless for me.

This is specific to FW13.

Hello good guys!

I'll try to be straight forward, but I thought I made up my choice regarding my next purchase, but "just in case" I waited the FW annoucement.

I'm now stuck in decision hell since I saw the FW13 Pro and it feels like I need some pragmatism in my life, what's better than asking stranger on reddit for that. It's been 5 days and I'm not pulling any trigger because of FOMO.

Few things to know:

• I have a 3000€ budget.
• I have a 2*32g SODIMM DDR5 5600mhz kit.
• I have a LPCAMM2 64gb module.
• I already have SSDs.
• I multi task a lot (100s of tabs), run windows, occasionally game (no triple A), and I earn my money using the adobe suite.
• I went back to my GT76 10SFS desk replacement after returning a FW16 Gen 1. I don't have much travel coming in the future so I can wait few months with my MSI (June was perfect but I've been waiting so much the only batch I can get are now August, I still can wait).

I was dead set on getting a FW16 9 HX 370 + the oculink community mod and going down the eGPU path (5070 Ti). But both the oculink dev kit and FW13 pro announcement got me "wth should I get?".

My biggest pet peeve with FW16 was the noise under almost no-load and battery life whenever I taveled. I never daily drove a 13 inches laptop, but I mostly use my laptop plugged in at my desk.

So I feel like 13 is great and easy to carry (I sometimes grab my wife's MBP and its battery life made me almost switch to the apple), but at the same time, why go with no GPU if it's only used as a desktop replacement?

I can't do desktop, I'm not looking for the best value and I'd love to stay in the FW ecosystem as I believe in the mission so much.

If you were on my shoes, not a huge power user, occasional gamer, 3000€ budget, already got RAM and SSD sorted out, windows user, mostly use my laptop at my desk but still need to be portable: what would you chose?

TL;DR: I've waited so long I'm now in analysis paralysis, and the more I wait the harder it gets, I just need some sense from a stranger.

Not any time soon, definitely, obviously, but no x86 CPU, no matter how efficient, can compete with ARM CPUs in TDP

Because of that, battery life would explode with an ARM CPU (and 13 pro already has a pretty strong battery life but oh MAN would it be sth)

Plus, the snappiness of ARM CPUs is hard to let go for me, so I guess just throw in your guesses/predictions, how long until they add the option for, say, a Snapdragon CPU or any other ARM one?

so today is the first time i know about this brand all i got to say is the detachable port is easily the best feature they make , they can make managing cable easier and if they make the port have different spec for people need it would be great like if you used the laptop as setup you might use the keyboard less because using a mechanical keyboard but changeable port make it easier for what device that compatible with your laptop . if for audiophile, if the headphone jack has a very good dac a whole community will want to buy this laptop because of how bad dac on laptop is. maybe in the future people will make third party port for this laptop brand. i never own one so dont know how the service is like

I'm aware this is a super niche question but I care a lot about security and privacy.

I probably look super paranoid for caring about disabling those

That's it.

Wanted the 13 when it came out after seeing Linus' video but never pulled the trigger coz I just graduated from highschool.

Tried to convince myself for Framework 12 while I was in Uni, but since I do dev, the screen size was killing the idea, I really tried to convince myself.

Now I'm finally pulling the trigger, after 5 long traumatising years, I am finally joining the framework laptop owners community T_T

Will share photos when it arrives in August hehehe

I will be going to MSCS (UW Madison) coming Fall 2026, I've been sure about the MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB till now. But the sudden heroic appearance of the 13 Pro has completely derailed my plans.

I was originally with the Macbook because of it's large unified memory (48GB) that allows me to locally run LLMs at a very resonable token speed. But, inferencing LLMs is not what I will always be doing.

I want to work on OS, systems and distributed systems during the next 2 years, and I'm not sure if MacOS will be good for it. That was my only gripe about Macbook till now.

The price difference is also quite notable, the MBP comes to only 2k USD (M5 Pro, 48GB Memory, 1tb storage) because of an Employee discount, the Framework comes to 2.8K ish USD (X7 358H, 64GB Memory, 2TB storage). Not sure if the price difference will be worth it for the x86 architecture.

I'm new to Systems btw, I wanna dive deep into this relatively soon, so I apoligize if I got the gist of things wrong, willing to learn any advantages and disadvantages of both the laptops

I have 13 with Ryzen 9, installed Debian testing with KDE plasma. The built-in speaker works fine. I can also use microphone from bluetooth headsets fine. But the built-in microphone doesn't seem to be working, or it might even be missing?

This is what KDE's input devices shown when I'm not connected to any bluetooth headsets:

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The first one might mean the 3.5mm jack? But I'm not sure if the 2nd one is the built-in mic either. I tried both, with the microphone slider on the top of the screen on, and neither seem to pick up any input.

What's the way to debug it?