WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:09.040 Inside of this box is the new Framework 12, a laptop that is going to bring 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:10.400 repairability and also so much cuteness. 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:16.880 But unfortunately, it's in a bunch of pieces. So, let's put it together. As you can tell, this one has already been 00:00:14.639 --> 00:00:20.640 put together and tested by our Labs, but we get to do it again. They were kind 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:25.119 enough to disassemble it for us, just like Framework does after they test 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:30.400 these. Okay, so we have our keyboard. We also have a screwdriver right here and a 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:35.760 stylus. Now, at the moment, you can't order a stylus, but you can use any 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:37.760 stylus that supports MPPP 2.0 or USI 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:42.160 2.0, which are things that I know, but you can definitely configure it in the 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:45.440 BIOS. We also have a 60W power adapter, 00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:48.160 which you do have to pay extra for. WD 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:52.559 Black SSD that once again you do need to option. And do note if you are getting 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:57.920 an SSD for this that it has to be one of the 30 mm long versions. You can't get a 00:00:55.039 --> 00:01:03.680 full fat 80 mm SSD and throw it into this. And also you cannot get more than 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:08.720 one stick of RAM. Here we have 16 gigabytes of DDR55600. 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:14.320 And we also have a lot of IO, a hilarious amount of IO. 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:23.759 We have HDMI, USBC, USBC, USBC, USBC, 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:26.159 USBA, DisplayPort, and another USBC. I 00:01:23.759 --> 00:01:31.280 would recommend not getting that many IO modules because they can add up 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:35.280 price-wise. This is like like $100 worth of IO. Please be a cute color. 00:01:33.759 --> 00:01:41.840 Otherwise, I don't know what we're doing with the title and intro. Hell yeah. 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:43.600 There we go. It's fun. Oh, we get 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:48.640 stickers. Look at this. They have a little duck in a spaceship. Fantastic. 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:54.159 If you're watching this channel, you probably have already heard of Framework, but if you haven't, they are 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:58.960 a fairly new company that makes laptops that are completely repairable. So, if 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:07.840 you get the DIY version, they arrive looking something like Oh no. Oh no. Oh, 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:11.520 I cannot one finger open it. They arrive looking something like this. To turn 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:15.440 this not complete laptop into a functional laptop, we need to add in a 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:22.080 couple of things. So, first of all, our RAM. We have 16 GB right here. And very 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:25.680 sadly, they only have a single RAM slot here, which does mean that you're only 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:29.680 going to be able to have single channel memory, which will reduce your 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:34.560 performance a little bit. Also, they use a little bit of carbon in this heat 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:38.879 shield right here in order for like EMI and also cooling. But one bonus for that 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:43.599 is that they have a little magnet here for the keyboard pogo pins and the RAM 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:47.519 flap just sticks to it. So, it's way easier to install your RAM. Now, if you 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:51.360 do leave this flap down, obviously your keyboard is not going to work, but 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:56.080 Framework realized that that might be a problem, and they do have a message that 00:02:52.959 --> 00:03:00.000 comes up that says, "Hey, dummy, put the 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:03.360 flap back." Up next, we have our WD 1 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.760 TBTE and totally normal size, completely 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:10.400 average SSD. One thing that's really nice about installing the SSD right here 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:15.760 is it is totally toolless. So, you just take this little tab, push it in, boom, 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:21.360 your SSD is not going anywhere. A lot of the time you will have these very tiny 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:23.760 little screws that for one are very easy 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:28.800 to lose and kind of difficult to get in, but also if you do lose it, everyone 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:31.519 uses different threads and standards, so getting a new one is basically 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:35.760 impossible, and you just have to tape down your SSD. You can see the names of 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:39.920 the people that worked on it. We do also have two two- watt speakers and a 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:45.519 50watth battery, but we will talk about the testing of those later. And a pretty 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:49.920 small little heat sink for a pretty small little processor. Now, we just 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:53.920 need to screw it together with the included screwdriver. I do really 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:59.040 appreciate the DIY version of this because it gets you used to going in and 00:03:56.799 --> 00:04:04.080 out of your laptop. A lot of laptops these days are actually pretty easy to 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:08.000 crack open, but many people that I know don't have the confidence to undo a 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:12.640 couple of screws and pop it apart. What IO do we want? Headphone jacks. All 00:04:10.799 --> 00:04:16.320 headphone jacks. No, that's already on here. You don't have the option. You 00:04:14.239 --> 00:04:20.000 can't pull a Dell or an ASUS and omit the headphone jack on this. So, right 00:04:18.479 --> 00:04:25.600 here, you can see that red means unlocked. And also inside of it, there's 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:30.560 a screw that you can move to permanently lock these in position. The point of 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:34.639 that is so that if these are deployed in schools like framework hopes that they 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:40.080 will be, you can't have your kids going there and just taking these out and just 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:44.880 whipping them at you. Hey, that was close. One thing to note about these, if 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:50.800 you're using the display outs, is that they do not play well at all with 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:53.759 capture cards. Uh, your display IDs get 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:59.360 super confused when you have display out to an adapter to a display. the it it 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:03.360 gets all messed up. So maybe don't try and do screen capture with one of these 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:06.880 or put aside several hours to set it up cuz it will be awful. Now that we're at 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:10.800 the point where we normally start our unboxing of laptops, let's have a little 00:05:09.039 --> 00:05:15.440 look. The construction is almost entirely plastic, but it's too plastics. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:19.680 So right here we have some hard touch stuff. And then along the outside we 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:23.039 have a bunch of TPU so that if you hand this to a child and then give it a 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:27.759 little bit of a drop, hopefully it will be nice and rugged. Also, as we saw 00:05:25.280 --> 00:05:33.759 before, on the inside, there is a metal chassis to help with rigidity and 00:05:30.479 --> 00:05:35.600 reliability, and metal's nice. I had to 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:39.280 say three things. I was I blanked for the third. 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:43.440 This says, "Pie is better than cake." Uh, you know, when I think about it, I 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:48.720 agree. No, there's only one good pie, too. Pumpkin and strawberry and 00:05:45.919 --> 00:05:53.120 blueberry and apple. All right, the power button is over on the side. So, 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:58.639 we're just going to press that. And I'm going to press on into the segue to our 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:02.000 sponsor, Zidex. Their X6 line of gaming desktops are built with the enthusiast 00:06:00.320 --> 00:06:07.280 in mind. Featuring top-of-the-line components like the 9800 X3D and 9070 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:10.960 XT. With an expert team helping you every step of the way, you can pick and 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:15.039 choose parts for your dream PC. 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I guess am I not supposed to say that? No, pay for Windows. Now, Framework claims that it 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:05.120 can do 400 nits and we tested it and it actually gets closer to 500 which is 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:09.599 pretty darn good. that is bright enough that even with it being glossy, you 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:17.039 could use it for like word editing and stuff like that in the outdoors. What we 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:22.319 get here is a comical 66% of sRGB. We 00:07:17.039 --> 00:07:25.360 did measure a 4.69 delta E2000, which is 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:27.840 not great, but also given how limited 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:32.880 the color space is, that is much better than I was expecting. But at the same 00:07:30.479 --> 00:07:37.840 time, everything just looks kind of washed out. like nothing is punchy, 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:39.680 nothing is grabbing my attention. What I 00:07:37.840 --> 00:07:46.319 will say is that if you have no clue what sRGB means or DCIP3 00:07:43.280 --> 00:07:48.880 or color spaces, you will probably be 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:52.880 totally fine looking at this laptop. It isn't going to blow you away, but the 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:56.560 contrast is pretty nice. And just looking at it here, it's fine. I could 00:07:54.960 --> 00:08:01.680 watch Netflix on this. I would be totally happy. Also, it is a touchcreen, 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:05.520 and it seems quite well done in the touchscreen department. A lot of the 00:08:03.520 --> 00:08:10.960 time the touchscreen digitizer and the display behind it might not be perfectly 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:12.800 aligned. But this one right here, I 00:08:10.960 --> 00:08:19.199 don't see any of the Well, I guess I can if I'm like this close to it. So, unless 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:25.639 you use your display about here from here, it's totally fine. Also, we have a 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:25.639 stylus. Hello. 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:35.200 Poop. can go from soft to heavy to soft. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:39.760 This is quite a good stylus, I do have to say. One thing that does seem 00:08:36.880 --> 00:08:43.599 slightly annoying is the rejection of my hand while I'm using the stylus isn't 00:08:41.599 --> 00:08:47.839 quite as good as I expect. I also got used to not touching it within how long 00:08:45.760 --> 00:08:50.640 did I do this? Like 30 seconds. So, I don't think it's going to be a huge 00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:54.480 problem long term. And moving over to the performance of the Framework 12, it 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:58.560 is fine. As long as you have your 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:02.240 expectations set properly, you won't be too disappointed in this. But if they 00:09:00.800 --> 00:09:09.920 aren't set properly, when you find out that this has an i5 1334U with 10 cores, 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:12.800 12 threads, and a max speed of 4.6 GHz, 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:17.680 you uh might be pretty underwhelmed. That said though, this processor is 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:22.160 perfectly fine. And they also have an i3 version which is a tiny bit slower and a 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:26.720 little bit more cut down. But both of them will work perfectly fine if what 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:31.519 you want to do is like school work, drawing, that sort of stuff. Not a whole 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:36.959 lot more. I guess we've already been over all the other stuff. 16 gigs of 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:38.560 RAM, 1 TB SSD, Wi-Fi 6E. I do really 00:09:36.959 --> 00:09:42.320 like to see that they did not cheap out on the wireless chipset and also you can 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:48.720 replace it or upgrade it later if you need to. and Intel UHD graphics, which 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:55.760 uh let's see how well those do. All right, so we're getting over 100 FPS at 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:59.600 720p. Do we dare try 1080? Get freaking 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:02.160 wrecked, Mr. Bot. And I score again. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:08.160 Laptop's perfect. I'm pretty surprised. We are playing Rocket League here at 70 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:10.560 to 80 FPS. You can see it right there. 00:10:08.160 --> 00:10:16.079 But it's working pretty darn well. This is better than I expected, but I was 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:21.040 also expecting pretty much nothing. So, there is that. If you're curious, the 00:10:17.839 --> 00:10:23.120 framework 13 is No, never mind. It's 00:10:21.040 --> 00:10:29.279 trash. This if you're curious, the framework 13 is like 120% faster in 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:32.800 games according to our Labs. And that makes a lot of sense because this does 00:10:30.800 --> 00:10:36.880 not have a modern processor. But I guess as long as you have your expectations 00:10:34.959 --> 00:10:42.279 absolutely through the floor, you can game on this. Do you know what is better 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:42.279 than fine, though? 00:10:44.160 --> 00:10:49.600 This keyboard is great. There's loads of 00:10:47.920 --> 00:10:53.600 travel on the keys. And even though the chassis isn't quite as stiff as I would 00:10:51.920 --> 00:10:59.040 want, they make up for that by having loads of travel on the keys. They have a 00:10:56.800 --> 00:11:03.680 really nice tactile feel to them. And overall, I'm going to give the keyboard 00:11:00.640 --> 00:11:06.320 a solid A. The trackpad also is pretty 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:09.920 darn great. It doesn't have the most satisfying click that I've ever felt, 00:11:07.920 --> 00:11:14.000 but I can't tell if it's glass topped or not, but it does feel like it's glass 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:18.959 topped. So, either way, they want that one. The tracking is awesome. The click 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:22.480 feel is pretty good, and also the taps feel great. It's a good little trackpad, 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:28.640 or I suspect things won't be quite as good as when we turn on the speakers. 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:32.800 Uh, it sounds wide, which is about the 00:11:28.640 --> 00:11:36.320 only compliment that I can give. Uh, 00:11:32.800 --> 00:11:39.360 bass, not a whole lot. Treble, not a 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:41.600 whole lot. Whole sound stage, pretty 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:45.120 crushed sounding. It obviously is not fair in the 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:48.720 slightest to compare this to a MacBook in any way. This machine right here is 00:11:46.800 --> 00:11:54.160 like three times the cost. But just for comparison's sake, we can play a crab 00:11:51.440 --> 00:12:01.600 rave on the Mac just so you guys can hear, you know, decent, bad. All right, 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.600 framework 12. 00:12:01.760 --> 00:12:10.079 MacBook Pro. Obviously not a fair comparison, but 00:12:07.040 --> 00:12:12.639 yeah. Ouch. Here we have a 1080p webcam 00:12:10.079 --> 00:12:16.399 and actually looks pretty darn good. One thing that I do really appreciate is up 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:20.720 at the top they have a little toggle for the microphone so you can no longer hear 00:12:18.560 --> 00:12:24.720 me. And also they have a toggle from the camera so you can no longer see me. I 00:12:22.880 --> 00:12:28.399 really appreciate laptops that take your privacy seriously and that is an 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:34.160 excellent step in the right direction. As for the camera itself, it is 1080p 00:12:30.880 --> 00:12:37.760 and it is doing a great job here. It is 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:39.279 exposing for my face pretty well. It's 00:12:37.760 --> 00:12:43.440 not perfect, but this is pretty difficult lighting right here. It also 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:47.519 is not making me look like a ghost or orange like many of them do. We can 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:51.519 point it directly at a light right here. And yeah, that's pretty darn serviceable 00:12:50.079 --> 00:12:57.120 given that I am pointing it directly into some studio lights. So overall, 00:12:54.560 --> 00:13:02.480 pretty darn good job. What unfortunately is not so great though is the battery 00:12:59.920 --> 00:13:09.279 life. This guy right here, we have a 50Wh battery and that got us just over 5 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:14.160 hours of battery life, which is pretty disappointing in a device like this. If 00:13:11.839 --> 00:13:19.600 you get something from basically every single other established laptop maker 00:13:16.880 --> 00:13:25.040 with this kind of specs, you will get more battery than that because they are 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:27.760 able to spend years realistically of 00:13:25.040 --> 00:13:31.920 engineering time optimizing the BIOS and the screen and how every single bit of 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:35.839 your laptop interacts, which unfortunately Framework just has not had 00:13:34.079 --> 00:13:42.320 the experience to do yet. So, the Framework 12, it starts at $550, but 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:46.399 that does not get you a complete laptop. So, we can't really consider that as a 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:50.320 starting price. That said, though, if we look at how I would configure one, we'd 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:54.480 get lavender, of course, because I want it to be very nice and pretty. Actually, 00:13:52.720 --> 00:14:01.760 no bubble gum. The bubble gum one's sick. WD Black, bring your own Windows. 00:13:58.560 --> 00:14:06.320 We'll just activate it later. 16 GB of 00:14:01.760 --> 00:14:09.920 RAM, lavender keyboard, two USBC's, 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:13.680 a type A, and an HDMI, which brings my 00:14:09.920 --> 00:14:16.959 personal config to $838. 00:14:13.680 --> 00:14:20.399 Now, that is perfectly fine. Really, 00:14:16.959 --> 00:14:23.040 it's neither expensive nor cheap, but it 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:27.040 is knocking on the door of the MacBook Air, and I think that's where you're 00:14:24.880 --> 00:14:31.040 going to start running into problems. So, you really have to figure out what 00:14:28.880 --> 00:14:35.839 you want from your laptop. This right here is going to be able to be upgraded 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:40.720 in the future. You can do kind of whatever you want it with it. And I 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:46.560 really, really appreciate Framework's vision for a laptop. That said, if you 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.480 get an i5, we're looking at $988, 00:14:46.560 --> 00:14:54.160 which is $11 off of a MacBook Air, which has a 00:14:52.079 --> 00:14:58.880 screen that blows this one out of the water and more than double the battery 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:04.399 life. Overall though, I do have to say I quite like the Framework 12. It is a fun 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:09.600 laptop when so many other laptops are trying to be serious and boring. It 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:14.880 doesn't have any significant flaws. The keyboard's great, trackpad's great, 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:16.720 screen is acceptable enough. So, if you 00:15:14.880 --> 00:15:20.399 are a turbo nerd and you want to be able to fully disassemble your laptop and 00:15:18.880 --> 00:15:25.040 that's something you're into, I think you should go and pick one up. It's I 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:28.399 recommend it. I like it. And I also like you for watching to the end of this 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:32.000 video. Huge thanks for watching. Hit like, get subscribed, and have a great 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:34.480 old day. I'll see you in the next unboxing.