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Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by nrp »

mohaine wrote: post #45
eatonphil wrote: post #4

Anyone have any good independent reviews of the laptop to recommend?

I have one and can give a quick review. Overall, it is very nice, but with a few small quirks. 1)Default Ubuntu install was very laggy. Not sure what was up with this. 2)Default Arch install is pretty much perfect. 3)Both Ubuntu and Arch have ok battery life. Pretty much as I expected for an Intel laptop. (i.e. not great) 4)By default, battery drain with the lid closed is pretty bad though. Don't expect to leave it l…

The lag in Ubuntu was likely a Panel Self Refresh support issue in that kernel. We posted a workaround here: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Ubuntu+21.10+Installation+on...

There is some community discussion on ways to optimize suspend power consumption as well: https://community.frame.work/t/ubuntu-21-10-on-the-framework...

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by samwillis »

andrewgioia wrote: post #8

Love my Framework. Barring Apple's recent move away from the touchbar it's honestly the first machine I've been excited about in 6 or so years. The build quality is great, love the simplicity and design of the expansion ports, and the repair/upgrade-ability is huge. It's gotten me back into using Linux as a daily driver. I really hope they stay true to their vision and that this means expanding it into other consumer…

I couldn't find on their site, is the casework/cassis plastic or aluminium?

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by dncornholio »

berkes wrote: post #27
dncornholio wrote: post #5

This website showed to me in French while I have my browser in English and am in the Netherlands. If I want to switch to Dutch, it won't let me. My basic understanding of French is that this product is not yet available in my country. Still horrible experience. Why not show me the English page? This website makes the wrong assumption someone's language is tied to the location.

> This website makes the wrong assumption someone's language is tied to the location. This is a bit of a premature "remote debugging" done, though. From what I see, they use Solidus and Rails as backend. This does not rule out your conclusion. But it is not a typical thing: in Rails (and Spree, from which Solidus is forked) it is, for example, far easier to read out the `Accept-Language` header than to do geo-ip lang…

What if I'm in France but speak English? It won't let us switch language / region separately. This is what I meant

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by Karsteski »

nrp wrote: post #21
JimBlackwood wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s always a shame such cool positions are US only. Would love to find some of these kind of companies in the EU (or more US positions that more easily allow non-US workers)

We're currently hiring in the US and Taiwan, where we have entities set up. We will likely set up an EU entity to open up hiring there too, but we don't have a timeline for that at the moment.

Will you be opening up any Canada positions? I would love to be able to apply in say a year.

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by geoffeg »

andrewgioia wrote: post #8

Love my Framework. Barring Apple's recent move away from the touchbar it's honestly the first machine I've been excited about in 6 or so years. The build quality is great, love the simplicity and design of the expansion ports, and the repair/upgrade-ability is huge. It's gotten me back into using Linux as a daily driver. I really hope they stay true to their vision and that this means expanding it into other consumer…

I've come very close to buying a Framework laptop a few times, but I'd only want to run Linux on it and wasn't sure how well it was supported. How are things like wifi, sleep and battery life under Linux?

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by ttty »

Sebb767 wrote: post #11

> We’re not ready to share what the next products are just yet, but this funding unlocks categories even more ambitious than our first one. We have a detailed plan in place for the next two years and napkin sketch ideas going out a couple of decades. It'll be really interesting to see where they go next. Given that they're already in computer and custom board space, I'd make a guess that it's going to be routers - si…

More ambitious than a laptop it's a phone

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by roland35 »

netant wrote: post #28

I purchased one last year and it's been great so far. Pros: - price. I have spare RAM and NVME ssd so this brings the price further down - modular port... Cons: - display/hinge is not very stable - touch pad is not as good as macbook's. I can't reliably click-and-drag using a singe hand (thumb finger to click, then index finger to drag). On macbook this gesture works perfectly fine. Wish there is a bigger version, an…

I love my framework as well! My main con is the battery life, although part of that is because I set the max charge % to 90 to hopefully protect long-term life
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