It comes via FedEx in Germany. And at your door they hand it to you and don’t need a signature. At least that what‘s was with my first package.

Had to get some replacement as my FW keyboards had a short. So the replacement was a bit more nerve wrecking. The driver came 3 times always when I am not at home. After 3 time FedEx contacted me via phone to schedule a new date for delivery. But I guess there was an overlap as the driver didn’t come. I already had requested to pick it up at their hub via e-mail so I guess the driver got cancelled after my mail was processed. And then I went to their hub when the notification mail came I can pick it up.

FedEx in Germany is even worse than DPD and that’s hard. But I have the feeling they are more suited towards B2B here in Germany than all the other services as they don’t really have an infrastructure with pick up shops. I ended up mailing them that I pickup the package at their Hub here in the town I live. Luckily it’s only 10 minutes by car to their Hub. That was way easier than to coordinate a date as they basically only deliver when I am at work and don’t do weekend delivery. (I guess it’s extra and framework only offers weekday delivery via FedEx).

Fun thing is a return shipment you get a UPS Return label.

XFCE on Fedora 39 runs stable too.

Sounds like FedEx issue had something similar with the replacement delivery. I emailed them that I pick up the package at their hub. If you live near a hub or other distribution center of theirs try to get it as self pickup.

Yes and no. Depends. What‘s you use cases? Can Linux fulfill them? Did you check that?

Ferdora 39 worked without a hitch. Even had no issues with BIOS 3.02 which allegedly had freezes.

You shouldn’t look at the hardware but at the software. For what will you use the laptop? What Applications do you plan to use. Are there Mac specific things you plan to do. Or do you have windows specific tasks. Or even would Linux the best platform for you.

If price is not a factor the software that supports your daily work the best will should be the decider.

Batch 1 here. For me it took one day from payment to shipping confirmation. Maybe you are more to the end of the orders. Also here in Germany get ready for a ride with FedEx. Took me a week to get my package from them after they missed me at home by 5 minutes on their first try.

Best to contact support. And if power button isn’t light up check bot Keyboard connections if they are seated correctly and if there is no short. My first keyboard had a short and melted it’s connector. And on the way killed the rest of the mainboard too.

Also try to record the LED flashing. It’s a self test and the first 10 or so are components tested by the bios.

https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/my-framework-laptop-intel-12th-gen-intel-core-is-not-powering-on-BJWtouV3q

This is for the 12th gen but the pattern is the same on AMD.

the assembly was no problem

I wish. Keyboard had a short. I didn’t notice it a first maybe it killed the mainboard too because despite it powering on and going through selftest without issue (except keyboard of course) no output on screen (only some flickering) and no external screen.

But must say support is great and fast and after some diagnosis got my replacement unit and keyboard. FedEx is s**t in germany though whis they would use some other parcel service.

Not a windows user here under Linux doing my usuals devils work with VSCode running and a dozen or so shells. Mid brightness. It runs for 4 to 5 hours with ease. Maybe even longer but that was the longest I used it til now. But it’s only 3 days I had the working replacement to my original Order.

$7.99 - you are lucky if that thing will even do USB3 on both ports. Let alone PD and Thunderbolt.

That’s what I expected but now one month of diagnostic with support later I wait for the replacement unit because the Keyboarddeck had a short and took the mainboard and display with it.

So be happy that it was only 10 minutes. Don’t get me wrong support was great but still would have loved to have your experience.

Maybe new Processors but they won’t do shit if the software isn’t there and Windows for Arm is still a big pile of shit.

Apple is doing here a great job with Rosetta 2 having run older x86_64 software on their silicon. From what I have seen Windows isn’t really good at it. And not sure if Linux’ bindet has good performance and compatibility if you have some software where no aarch64 binary exists.

I would be very hesitant to buy a none Apple ARM based PC tbh.

I went from batch 1 to batch 9 today. 😂 My batch one AMD 13 seems to be completely nuked. Keyboard shorted (molten connector), Mainboarf seems to work but no display out neither on the internal nor on external.

But hey support is pretty good at least. But yeah I hope the later batches are better.