Framework Desktop press reviews are live!
Press reviews of Framework Desktop are now live, and we’re starting shipments of Batch 1 pre-orders next week! This was the largest set of press units we’ve ever sent out for a product launch, both because so many reviewers wanted to try it out and because we wanted to show just how incredibly capable Ryzen AI Max is across a range of use cases. The reviews and videos posted today cover gaming, DIY PC building, machine learning, homelab, Linux workstation, and general PC productivity scenarios. Reviewers called out the multi-core performance, the workloads that 128GB of memory can enable, how quiet the system is both at idle and under load, and surprise at just how tiny it is. Here are some of our favorite highlights:
"Framework did good with this one. AMD really blew it out of the water with the 395+. We're spoiled to have such incredible hardware available for Linux at such appealing discounts over similar stuff from Cupertino. What a great time to love open source software and tinker-friendly hardware!"
– DHH
"This is exactly the kind of setup that I want personally for personal AI. Think Poe from Altered Carbon meets Home Assistant, without ridiculous heat and power requirements."
"I understand why companies are marketing this APU as an AI gaming box. Because at high settings with 1440p and FSR 3.0 set to balanced, I never dropped under 60 fps... It did all this while consuming 100 watts under load and never going above 60C. That's insane."
We have a large number of pre-orders of both the system and Mainboards that we're working through, and we’re ramping production as quickly as we can. Pre-orders are still open, with the current open batch shipping in Q4. We’re continuing to build out both the documentation and the ecosystem around the product. We now carry our favorite wireless gamepad, the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C in the Framework Marketplace in US and Canada for those of you who want to bring your Framework Desktop into the living room. We’re also writing more guides around the machine learning use case, starting with a getting started guide on using LM Studio for local AI. This is a topic that is evolving quickly. OpenAI launched their new gpt-oss-120b model just this week, and it works out of the box on Framework Desktop too!
If you want to get hands on with Framework Desktop and the rest of our product line-up, we’ll be at a number of events across the US, Europe, and Taiwan over the next few months. Stop by our booths, pick up some stickers, and say hi to the team!
- Quakecon - August 7 - 10 in Grapevine, TX
- COSCUP - August 9 - 10 in Taipei, TW
- Open Source Summit Europe - August 25 - 27 in Amsterdam, NL
- PAX West - August 29 - September 1 in Seattle, WA
- Rails World - September 4 - 5 in Amsterdam, NL
- Maker Faire Bay Area - September 26 - 28 in Vallejo, CA
- Texas Linux Festival - October 3 - 4 in Austin, TX
- TwitchCon - October 17 - 19 in San Diego, CA
- Hackaday Supercon - October 31 - November 2 in Pasadena, CA
