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The bad news for my American friends is that due to the ongoing tariff

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situation, some base models of the framework 13 are not shipping to the US

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for now. But there is good news. This fully loaded model with the AMD Ryzen

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AI9 HX370 is because, as Framework

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explains, higherend models are more profitable and therefore easier to

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absorb the margin hit on. Thanks for the transparency, Framework. Breaking news.

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Between filming and releasing this video, tariff announcements have changed

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again. That means that base model framework 13s are again available for

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order. But do note that pricing has changed for some of the available modules and configurations, though not

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everything. So, make sure to check out Framework's website for the latest info.

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Uh, bye. Speaking of transparency,

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Framework investment disclosure. And thanks for the transparency on this

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machine. I am super excited to see their new transparent bezels. We'll get to

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that in a minute after we have a look at the included accessories, which as

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always with the framework are kind of up to you. You can buy a power adapter.

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Their GAN power adapter is super awesome. This thing is 60 W and it fits

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in the palm of even the smallest of hands. You also get a nice 6 ft USBC to

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C power cable. This has multiple benefits. One, it's detachable, meaning

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that a broken connector on one side is never going to mean that your power

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brick is useless. And number two is it's got this nice right angle cable on one

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side. So depending on what's more ergonomic for your setup, you can put

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that on either end you want. You also get a little Mickey Mouse connector for

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the other end or you can just get nothing and use your own. You'll also

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get any of the IO modules that you purchase, which the Labs team has

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helpfully opened all of them for me. And this really is one of the coolest things

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about using a Framework laptop. Whether you want DisplayPort, HDMI, USBC, USBA,

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Ethernet, I'm going to get this out of here at some point. All you got to do is

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slide that into your laptop and you're good to go. Oh wow. These new

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transparent ones look so cool. Check

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this out. That color, that's my childhood right there. Well, not quite.

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This is not the N64 green, but still translucent colored plastic gets me

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right in the feels. And IO modules aren't the only thing that's available

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in translucent now. Oh, sick. Check that

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out. translucent green front bezel.

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Dang. And because this is the framework 13 we're talking about here, you can

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take that translucent bezel, which by the way is available in lots of

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different colors, and install it on any machine you want, the brand new one you

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just purchased or one that you've already been using for years. There's a

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couple more accessories to look at. If you get a DIY kit, you'll find it loaded

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up with your RAM, SSD, the one

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screwdriver that you will need with a swappable bit to assemble your machine.

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We won't need this cuz our machine was preassembled, but hey, just cuz it's

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preassembled doesn't mean we can't take it apart. Right now, let's take a look at the latest Framework 13. This is such

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a critical feature that they've done such a good job of supporting. Windows,

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Linux, whatever you like, Framework is here to support it and deliver a great

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computing experience at the same time. I mentioned that this has a Ryzen AI 9 HX

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370 processor, but I haven't talked about what exactly that means. It means

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12 Zen 5based cores, four of which are

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full fat Zen 5 and can turbo up to 5.1 GHz, while eight of them are Zen 5C, the

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more compact, power efficient ones. You also get support for up to 96 GB of DDR5

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memory, which happens to be exactly what this machine is configured with. On the

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top, we get the traditional framework logo, and I'm really excited for this.

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Pre-installed on our machine is the purple bezel along with their new

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2.8K 120 Hz matte display. As always,

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disassembling your framework 13 is as simple as undoing the screws on the

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bottom and then getting good. There we

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go. We just got to detach this ribbon

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cable for the keyboard and trackpad. By the way, the keyboard has been

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re-engineered for this model. It apparently retains the 1.5 mm travel

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that we've come to know and love while reducing resonance caused by the

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speakers. And as always with Framework, the best part is you don't have to get

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the new model to get it. You can just buy this keyboard and huck it onto your

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old framework. I don't believe the touchpad has changed. Neither has the

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fingerprint sensing power button. So, we're going to put that aside and have a

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look at the internals. That is a big

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difference. And by big, I mean big. They've gone from two 5mm heat pipes to

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a single 10 mm heat pipe in order to handle the additional thermal output of

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this Ryzen 9 processor. Oh, there's that RAM I was talking about. Look at that.

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second and it's on so dim modules.

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So if you ever needed to upgrade that then you could or more likely if you

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wanted to configure your framework 13 with a lower amount of memory today and

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then upgrade it to a big fat 96 gig configuration in the future you could do

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that. We've got our 1 TB SSD. You can configure it with up to 8 terab. And

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where's our Wi-Fi module? Ah, there it is. MediaTek. Okay. I haven't had the

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greatest experiences with them every time in the past, but they have been a

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little bit better lately. But what I'm more excited about is that it's Wi-Fi 7

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now. Dude, Wi-Fi 7 is ripping fast, and

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I freaking love it. And with all the Steam games you're going to be

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downloading on this thing, thanks to its Radeon 890MG GPU, you're going to be

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pretty happy you've got that. Since we're in here, we can talk about some stuff that's not new, but is really nice

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about the Framework 13, like the QR codes that are included on all the main

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components that show you how to read and read them in the event that you need to

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perform a repair. They include extras of all the screws that you might need in

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case you accidentally lose a screw during one of those repairs. We've got

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the same 61Wh battery that we've come to know and be mostly okay with. It managed

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about six hours in our battery life test, which would have been pretty good,

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you know, a couple of years ago before Intel's latest superefficient processors

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came out, but uh did not hold up to our

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comparison machine, the Dell4 Pro

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Premium, whatever order it's in, whatever. A really nice Dell machine

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that managed almost 16 hours in that same test. While I'm snapping in these

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modules at the back, is a perfect time to talk about how not all of them are

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made quite equal. Framework has this handy dandy little chart that you can

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consult if you're not sure which modules go in which slots. But what it boils

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down to is that the back two are capable of USB 4. All of them are capable of

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DisplayPort, though not at quite the same bandwidths, and all of them are

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capable of being used as a power input for charging. So dayto-day you won't

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really have to think about it. You'll only have to really think about it when

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you are reconfiguring your IO depending on, you know, whether you like to have a

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USBA mouse dongle and you like to have it on the other side so it doesn't

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interfere with your mouse hand or whatever the case may be. That's honestly one of my favorite things about

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dailying the framework is you can just put your IO on whatever side you want.

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Think I already said that, but you know what? I think it bears mentioning twice.

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I do think that framework at a certain point here is probably going to be able

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to just kind of go, "Yeah, I think we gave a lot of life to the people who

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bought the original 13. We could uh we could probably update it a little bit,

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but apparently it is not this day." It's incredible to me that they've taken this

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many generations of CPU and made them work in this chassis. It's also cool how

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let's fire this thing up. I want to try

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out this keyboard because it's all fine and good for them to say that it's

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really great, but I need to try it for myself. Oh, and I also want to try out

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swapping the front bezel. I didn't show you guys this, but swapping it out is as

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simple as just opening it up nice and wide, pulling off the magnetic bezel

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piece, and boom, now you're green with

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envy, cuz I just swapped my bezel. Not everyone's into this sort of

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personalization, but if you are, how cool is that, right? Oh, they include

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hardware switches for both the webcam and the integrated microphone. Always

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nice to see. And as I always appreciate, the hinge opens up completely 180°,

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which can be super handy if you're using your laptop on the go and referring back

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to it rather than just using it sitting in your lap or on the desk. Oh, yeah.

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Hey, look. This particular version of the keyboard has a framework key which

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works in Linux or Windows or whatever

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you like. And because the keyboard is modular, you can get all kinds of cool

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variants, including that transparent one that looks sick.

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That's a nice keyboard. No complaints about the trackpad either, though I

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wasn't expecting any. Let's talk about the display because this was not a

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particularly bright spot in our testing. Not because it wasn't bright. It reached

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the about 500 nits that Framework claims, which for a nonHDR display is

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perfectly acceptable. And you got to love that matte finish. Look at this.

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Even in the studio lighting glare, like that's not bad. Okay, here here for

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context. Hold on, hold on. Here's an iPhone pointed at that same light. All

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right, look at that. Ah, so that's

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pretty cool. I'm also loving the improved resolution. It is now 2880 by

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1920 and looks flipping sharp. The only issue is that when we were looking at

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color accuracy in our testing, we found that there was a green shift to the

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colors that would make it not really suitable for color sensitive work, at

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least not without further manual calibration. We'd like to see that be a

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little bit better. The good news is that

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their lower-end 60 Hz lower resolution

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display did not have the same issue and would be okay for some light Photoshop.

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So, I guess you can save your money. Also, coming back to bad news, neither

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of them is a touchcreen, and that is still not an option that is available

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for the Framework 13. For that, you'll need the Framework 12, which doesn't

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come with the same kind of high performance internal hardware. Speaking of high performance, let's fire up some

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games, shall we? Oh, they apparently retoled the fan curve to make it more

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better. I can definitely hear it. Is that with Cyber Punk running in the

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background? Oh, no way. Oh, whoa, it's

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really quiet. Oh, dude, that's awesome. Check this

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out. That's with Cyberpunk running. I

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mean, it might not have reached full saturation yet, but like, dang. I don't

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think I have a single other resolution to choose from. I would have to set up

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some custom resolutions with like CRU or

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something like that. So, all right, screw it. We're going for

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native. That's a lot of resolution. Um,

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oh boy. Yeah, I'm getting like 15 FPS or

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something like that. Barely. I'm going to set it to

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ultra performance FSR. That'll turn down

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the effective resolution. Okay, that's somewhat playable now. We're probably getting more like about 20 to 25 FPS. I

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guess I could open up frame view. Oh, yeah. 20. Damn, I'm good. 22 frames per

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second. The 1% lows are a little lower,

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but uh I'm still giving myself credit for that one. Oh, what the heck? I can't

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believe I didn't talk about this before. This panel has rounded corners in a

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square frame. What the heck? My F is cut

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off. Now, I understand why because Framework doesn't operate at the kind of

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volumes that someone like an Apple or a Dell does. They can't exactly run around

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making their own custom panels. So, they're sort of at the mercy of whatever

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exists on the market. But, that along with the color accuracy is definitely a

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compromise of the 120 Hz display. All right, let's try running something a

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little less demanding, shall we? Is this GPU supposed to be running at only about

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1,000 MHz? Uh, you're probably limited based on the

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wattage. Is it in power saver mode or anything right now? Best power

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efficiency. Gosh darn it. Okay, well that might be that might be part part of

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our problem. Oh, there goes the fans, too. All

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right, here we go. Okay, the fans

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definitely get a little louder. That was my bad. Well, sort of. I mean, it was

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configured like that when I got it. So, yeah. Now, we're getting about 25 FPS

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average. This is playable now. Definitely louder, though. Oh, yeah. I

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never showed. See? Louder. There you go.

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Since we're talking about gaming, I guess now's as good a time as any to put up some graphs, which were a bit of a

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surprise to me. While obviously AMD's Ryzen 300 series is competent when it

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comes to gaming, Intel, aside from that bug that resulted in a do not finish cuz

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the VRAM was reported incorrectly, put up a shockingly good fight. And the Core

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Ultra 7268V not only has a slightly less

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convoluted name, but actually better gaming performance than the Ryzen 9 AI

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chip that we're using here today. So, uh, that's pretty cool. Does Framework

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have a a Core Ultra 200 series yet? No.

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Okay. Well, hopefully they're working on that then. Let's play around with the webcam. Yeah, the Framework webcam was

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pretty outstanding when it first arrived on the market, but now that we've seen

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the really incredible webcams on some of those uh especially Qualcomb based

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machines, it is still fine, but it just

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isn't really anything special by modern standards. I mean, the fact that it

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handles this light directly behind me at all is is good. It's just not really

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amazing anymore, and they haven't made huge strides with it since the original

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Framework 13. What about the speakers? I mean, there's supposed to be less

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resonance or whatever, right? Where's my crab ray

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at? I mean, they still have no grills, so you know, they sound fine. Not on par

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with the best that you'd get from someone like an Apple or a Dell, but

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perfectly chromulent. What's a little less chromulent to swallow is the price.

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This machine, as configured, is about on par with that Dell that we benchmarked

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it against. Now, obviously, the Dell doesn't have the same upgradability,

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repairability, modularity, but what it does have is incredible battery life

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compared to the Framework 13. So, the conclusion is the same as always. If

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what you're after is something like a framework, something that you can spill

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your coffee all over the keyboard and quickly and easily order replacement

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parts and throw them on yourself, there is nothing quite like it on the market.

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But if you just want a machine that is a cohesive package that ultimately when

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you're done with you're simply going to throw in the waist bin, then it might

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not offer the best bang for the buck. You know what's great bang for the buck

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