Framework’s Laptop 13 Pro launch event – The Verge

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

2026-04-21T19:04:33-04:00

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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

2026-04-21T14:07:29-04:00

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 is building a better couch keyboard because everyone hates the Logitech one

2026-04-21T18:32:13-04:00

If you have a wireless keyboard with a touchpad that lets you control your PC from across the room, chances are it's a Logitech K400. Framework CEO Nirav Patel is betting that you hate using it - enough to buy Framework's spin on the idea when it arrives later this year.

He says that Logitech's keyboard is precisely the reason he's building a new one: "It's that Logitech keyboard that everybody owns and nobody likes," he tells me. "Everybody's got the same keyboard, nobody likes that keyboard, and so we figured we can build a better keyboard."

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When I heard him say this in an interview, it was a joy. That's partly because Patel is one of …

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