Got my new FW 13, AMD, DIY version. It took all of 10 minutes to go from opening the shipping box to having a fully assembled, powered up laptop.
So I built a "whitebook’ Asus Z96J back in like 2008 or so, and it wasn’t that hard but it was definitely not this easy. Opening the packaging was harder than assembling the computer. This was so damn simple, I feel almost cheated. Anyone else ever had this sense?
Incredible engineering on the part of the entire framework team. If FW 16 has even half this level of simplicity yet polish, they ought to sell a billion of them.
In the first few batches of FW orders, some people bought DIY and didn’t know how to DIY. They needed a little hand-holding and even then struggled. For the veterans, it was easy peasy, with no need for special tools to remove the bottom covers or losing screws. Everything is easy to disassemble and reassemble with no problems. It even included QR codes on the bottom.
FW has changed the way laptops are made and this was the first time I bought a laptop in a long time. My last laptop was an IBM X41 Tablet convertible.