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Framework announces Laptop 13 Pro, ‘the MacBook Pro for Linux users’

2026-04-21T20:39:36-04:00

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Every time we review a Framework laptop, we find familiar pros and cons. They're truly upgradable, incredibly repairable, but we always wish the battery lasted longer. We always wish the build quality were top notch.

Today, Framework is announcing what could be the answer: the Framework Laptop 13 Pro.

I just tried it at Framework's event in San Francisco, and the build quality feels like night and day compared to the somewhat piecemeal designs the company's released before.

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It's the company's first laptop to be fully machined out of blocks of 6000-series aluminum, its first with a haptic trackpad, and its first with a fully custom 13.5 …

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Framework’s first eGPUs turn its laptop into a desktop PC

2026-04-22T14:19:35-04:00

Remember when Framework made the first laptop where you can easily upgrade its entire internal video card in three minutes flat? The company's getting into the external graphics game, too. As promised last August, you'll be able to turn the Framework Laptop 16's GPU modules into external ones instead. Or, you can plug in a desktop graphics card (or network card, or other PCIe cards) for more power than most laptops ever dream of having, with eight lanes of PCI-Express bandwidth.

Framework's calling it the OCuLink Dev Kit, because it uses the OCuLink standard to transmit data between your CPU and the external GPU, and because the company wa …

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Framework actually did it: I upgraded a laptop’s entire GPU in just three minutes

2025-09-02T15:14:32-04:00

On Tuesday, I told you how the modular computer company Framework was finally fulfilling its promise of the "holy grail for gamers" - a laptop with modular, swappable discrete graphics cards so easy to swap, practically anyone can do it at home. The first futureproof gaming laptop, perhaps?

Today, I can confirm the system actually works. I traveled to Framework's San Francisco offices to be the first journalist to upgrade an entire laptop graphics card, with my own hands, in just three minutes - including the time it took to reboot. I yanked an AMD Radeon RX 7700S video card out of the machine and plugged in a brand-new mobile Nvidia RTX 50 …

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Framework is working on a giant haptic touchpad, Trackpoint nub, and eGPU for its laptops

2025-08-26T17:07:18-04:00

Today, Framework announced the second-gen Framework Laptop 16 with two industry firsts: the first Nvidia laptop graphics card upgrade you can perform at home in just a couple minutes, and the first complete 240W laptop charging solution over a USB-C cable.

But the company's also revealing some intriguing upgrades that didn't quite make the cut - including an extra-large haptic touchpad a la Apple's MacBooks (with no physical click), and the company's first external graphics module (eGPU).

Not everything in the video below is actually coming to market, and some of it won't be aimed at everyday consumers. Framework CEO Nirav Patel says he's …

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Bye-bye barrel jack: Framework brings 240W USB-C charging to laptops

2025-09-02T15:13:59-04:00

Four and a quarter years ago, I told you how a USB-C cable could someday power all but the beefiest gaming laptops. Now, Framework is finally fulfilling the promise of 240 watts through a USB plug. Today, it's opening preorders for the first standards-compliant 240W USB-C PD power adapter ever sold by a computer company.

Since Framework also has the first laptop that can support 240W USB-C PD, it's the latest way that Framework, a startup company, is leading the PC industry. It's the only company that's ever delivered on the promise of modular, upgradable laptops. Today, it also appears it'll be the first to deliver "the holy grail" of upg …

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Framework is now selling the first gaming laptop that lets you easily upgrade its GPU — with Nvidia’s blessing

2025-08-29T18:37:49-04:00

Framework CEO Nirav Patel said he would deliver "the holy grail for gamers" with the Framework Laptop 16. In 2023, he suggested it'd be the first consumer notebook to fulfil the promise of modular, upgradable graphics cards like a desktop PC. We at The Verge were skeptical, because the last time we heard someone tell that story, it ended in lawsuits and forced arbitration.

But today, some eighteen months after shipping the Framework Laptop 16, the company has done what no laptop maker has done in modern memory, if ever: it's created a newer, faster discrete graphics card you can easily swap into its existing laptop.

Update, August 29th: W …

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Framework is teasing a ‘big’ update for August 26th — could it be Framework 16?

2025-08-20T17:20:38-04:00

Framework, the modular computer company, just released its first delightful tiny desktop PC, on top of its smallest laptop yet. But it's already teasing its next big live announcement on YouTube for August 26th at 8am PT / 11am ET, saying it'll reveal how "something big just got better."

While that may seem like a vague phrase, it might narrow things down quite a bit! Framework only has one existing "big" product other than the Framework Desktop, the one that mysteriously didn't get an update at its last event in February.

I'm talking, of course, about the Framework Laptop 16, the most ambitious and most modular laptop ever made. When I t …

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Framework raised prices and then un-raised them an hour later because of Trump

2025-04-09T16:41:32-04:00

Thanks to Framework, one of the most transparent computer companies out there, we now have a sterling example of just how ridiculous President Donald Trump's tariffs can make life in the year 2025.

Today, the company made all of its computers more expensive. Then, it almost immediately reversed that to bring its computers back to their original prices, in real time, all because Trump posted to social media that he was instituting a tariff pause less than a day after his new tariffs began. Then, Framework clarified that some price increases will still apply on China-made components.

Here's the timeline of events:

At 12:01AM ET Wednesday, …

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Mint and pink: a closer look at the backflipping Framework Laptop 12

2025-02-26T21:02:31-05:00

The Framework Laptop 12.

The moment Vjeran and I got to the demo room at Framework's San Francisco event, we knew right away - the mint and pink version of the Framework Laptop 12 was the one I wanted to touch, the one he wanted to photograph and film.

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Could a modular repairable laptop look great and be cheap? That's the goal of the Framework Laptop 12 - which is also the company's first laptop with a touchscreen, its first with a stylus, and its first convertible 2-in-1 tablet PC. We haven't seen its insides, and we don't know its price, only that it'll cost less than $750 when it arrives mid-year. #framework #laptop #repair #tech #techtok #todayimtoying …

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Framework Desktop hands-on: a possible new direction for gaming desktops

2025-02-26T13:53:10-05:00

The Framework Desktop.

Framework's mission is to "fix consumer electronics, one category at a time" by making them modular, repairable, and upgradable. It's the only laptop maker to ever truly succeed at that "upgradable" part. But desktop PCs are already modular, so why is Framework making one?

At first, I thought it saw a unique opportunity to make a cute yet badass tiny gaming PC with AMD's unusual Strix Halo processor and decided to shoot its shot. As you'll read below, I'm excited by the result. But I also have another idea I'll share with you afterward.

Let's start with the gadget part: yes, the tiny 4.5-liter gaming desktop that Framework announced yester …

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