You can easily change the RTC coin cell battery with no soldering
Soldering only comes in to play if you want to get rid of the coin cell all together
With some laptop usage/charging patterns the coin cell would empty to dead easily and I would not hold a charge well anymore after that. So even if replace the coin cell, your usage pattern could kill the next coin cell as fast as the previous one. Hence the need/want for the battery bypass
After reading the other comment it makes sense that it could be your CMOS battery.
According to this no soldering required, hopefully.
https://knowledgebase.frame.work/how-do-i-replace-the-rtc-battery-in-my-framework-laptop-Hk406Lc1t
Never hurts to have the latest bios though.
Soldering sounds exciting, I think I get some definite nerd street cred for that -- "soldered own laptop" has a nice ring to it.
Be prepared for a "I tried soldering an RTC battery and magic smoke started escaping from my laptop" post soon!
Checked the BIOS and I couldn't see anything in there about power requirements for booting. I also haven't made any changes to my BIOS recently. I will go ahead see if I can update the BIOS just for redundancy, thank you!
Sorry to hear about your screen.
I've had mine for 4 years and never had an issue with the screen. Their hardware quality has seemed kind of suspect though, as my webcam failed (not the module itself though either the wire or something in the mobo that controls it)
Most likely the RTC (real time clock) battery is not holding a charge anymore?
The first gen mainboards only charged the RTC battery via the charger so if you didnt plug in the laptop for some time it wouldn't boot anymore even if the main battery had charge because the laptop does not boot with a dead RTC battery
You can either replace the RTC battery yourself or framework can send an RTC battery replacement for free that uses the main battery as the RTC battery but it does require you to solder a single wire to the mainboard
Milled out of a solid block of 6063 aluminum, so I'm assuming more robust compared to the plastic
To me the screen just decided to die in a random day, I did not see any obvious reason. Compare to other brands, I have a feeling that the chasis does not provide enough protection to the screen and it seems very fragile :/
For the CNC lid, is it more robust at all or it just offers a more premium looks ?
I've had a Framework 13 for coming up on 5 years now, and I've only had to replace the screen once: I over stuffed a laptop bag with 3 laptops through a cross country flight and when I pulled it back out the screen was dead. That was after about 2 years of daily use. I got a laptop sleeve to protect the laptop and haven't had any issues since.
I am thinking about getting the CNC lid, though, just to make it a little more robust.
Honestly I don't know but since it's before post check the bios for changes. Maybe see if there is a newer bios version.
The message directed at a dev could also suggest a new developer oriented mainboard (ARM or RISC-V?)
I wonder what they are announcing...
The little penguin guy makes me think it's Linux related in some way. Maybe better support for more distros, or perhaps they're releasing a little mini PC that's like a cheaper FW Desktop?
Maybe it's a new revision of the laptops, but with preinstalled Linux OOTB?
I wish they had a Framework 15 or 14. The 16 is HUGE and 13 is just too small for me.
Otherwise they look great!
Okay well, corporate headquarters then.
Fair but too many
More to burn!
There's not that many. Most of them are still promises, just like the RAM purchases. They want all the RAM and they've promised to buy it, and they're trying to get contracts to build data centers, but neither of those things have been realized on any kind of mass scale.
We're being fucked over for a bunch of IOUs.
What? No! Then all the RAM gets destroyed and they will just build more datacenters.
isn't it time to fire bomb the ai data centers yet?
Framework laptops are modular, if you don't like the keyboard you can swap it out for a new one in a few minutes. The RGB keyboard isn't standard, IIRC.
minor complaint but I wish it wasnt RGB
Gotta say, after the recent driver patches the Framework Desktop is solid and games well.
I played some of the steam demos this weekend and they were fun, didn't even register hearing the fan higher than baseline.
Linux gaming is pretty solid, most of my games just work now, even compared to last summer it's much better.
The HandyWork keyboards look intriguing. What I would be very interested in would be to have a small touchpad in between the halves to use for small/quick pointer movements while typing. The main touchpad could still be the primary means of pointing/clicking/scrolling, but also having a second small touchpad in an even more ergonomic position would be neat for the occasional quick pointer adjustments that still happen during keyboard-intensive workflows.
I feel like, as well written as this article is, its not written for the appropriate audience.
The kind of person who will google "gaming on linux" are not looking for a list of distro names with confusing words like "atomic" thrown in as descriptors, they are looking for a simple answer pointing at an easy to set up and maintain gaming experience that happens to use Linux that they don't really need to think about. Said experience could be a great way for them to get their toes wet in the Linux ecosystem so that they can start asking more complex questions that this article would be better at answering, but I don't think this is what Linux needs in SEO at the moment.
Same here, can confirm this worked on my intel 11th FRMRK 13