Framework Laptop 16 now with RTX 5070 12GB and launch event re-cap
The response to our Framework Laptop 13 Pro launch last week was bigger than we ever could have imagined. Far more of you pre-ordered than we had originally forecast, and we’re already into Batch 10. We’re just wrapping up validation and final software and firmware for the Pro now, and our operations team is getting ready to ramp into manufacturing. In addition to Framework Laptop 13 Pro, we got a ton of positive feedback around the improvements to Framework Laptop 16, the OCuLink Dev Kit, and the Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard. If you missed the announcement, we have it up on our YouTube Channel, along with a recording of the community Q&A we did later in the event.
We built Framework Laptop 13 Pro to be the “MacBook Pro for Linux users”, and the initial sales metrics and post-purchase survey results are showing we’ve landed that. Configurations with Ubuntu pre-loaded are vastly outselling Windows ones, and we’re seeing >1/3rd of pre-orders come from people moving off of MacBook Pro’s. We got some excellent feedback from developers in the Linux space who we seeded pre-production hardware to, like this run-down from the team at CachyOS. We also saw a number of excellent hands-on videos and write-ups from reviewers, community members, and YouTubers who came to the event. Some of our favorites are:
- Linus (one of our investors) early hands-on with each of our new products
- Salem Techsperts’ excellent hands-on with Framework Laptop 13 Pro
- The broad coverage of all of our announcements at the launch event from The Verge
- Just Josh’s coverage of the event and hands-on with Framework Laptop 13 Pro
There is one announcement that we couldn’t share during our launch event. Today, NVIDIA introduced a 12GB version of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 5070 Laptop GPU, and we’re happy to share that we have variants of Framework Laptop 16 available for pre-order with it. Shipments start this June alongside the One Piece Haptic Touchpad and Keyboard. We also have the Graphics Module itself available for pre-order in the Framework Marketplace for those of you who already have a Framework Laptop 16. We’re continuing to live up to graphics upgradeability in a laptop, now with our third discrete GPU option!
We also snuck in one other mini product launch last week that we didn’t get a chance to share much detail about, which is the USB-A (2nd Gen) Expansion Card. This has a custom USB-A receptacle that detects whether a device is plugged into it. When nothing is plugged in, the card is invisible to the system. This improves power consumption specifically on AMD systems, where the rear two Expansion Card slots have retimers that can’t otherwise automatically enter a lower power state if an empty 1st Gen USB-A Expansion Card is plugged in. The 2nd Gen card is available with pre-orders of Framework Laptop 13 Pro, and will be coming to other systems and the Framework Marketplace later this summer.
If you want to try out Framework Laptop 13 Pro and our other new products too, we’ll be at a few events over the coming months:
- Open Source Summit NA (5/18 - 5/20): Minneapolis, MN
- Computex (6/2 - 6/5): Taipei, Taiwan (Booth N1005)
- Crowd Supply Teardown (6/19 - 6/20): Portland, OR
