"Soon to be released" is a big thing to say. Their shipping countries list is small.

I ordered one for my wife so I've been treated to the stream of e-mails from Framework pushing back the definition of 'soon’ now into Q4 due to firmware issues. And it looks like they're just shipping anyway despite not being able to use USB-A modules in the rear 2 slots without "high power consumption."Appears they're assuming they'll find a solution down the road to make the system fit for purpose.

Really making me question my choices here. Should have just bought her a Lenovo.

You chose to pre-order a first generation product (their first AMD release) from a small company. There were always going to be problems and delays because there always are. The error you made was pre-ordering it a long way out.

You could always cancel your pre-order, get your deposit refunded, and just buy the Lenovo. You could also get a 13th gen Intel Framework 13 right now.

I've pre-ordered a Framework 13 AMD. I'm not as worried about it because I only placed the order recently and I'm across all of the issues.

> "Soon to be released" is a big thing to say.

Not really. They've shipped three iterations of their Intel laptop (11th, 12th, and 13th gen Intels). The Framework 13 AMD and Framework 16 AMD laptops are their first AMD products.

The Framework 13 AMD started production a couple of weeks ago:

https://frame.work/blog/now-available-in-taiwan

They'll start shipping them soon.

> Their shipping countries list is small.

Framework is still a small company. They'll add more countries as they grow.

The brief was "exotic". I delivered exotic.