TLDR: OP needed a bike but bought a yacht. Proceeds to explain how a bike is easier to park in the city.

I have a Framework because I ordered it through freight forwarding in the early days, and even managed some replacement parts a bit later. Now I want to upgrade but can't because they implemented tighter controls which stop me ordering 😭

I have a 16 and I love it and plan for it to be my main system for a very long time.

But, it is a very big laptop. When I got it my plan was to give my 13 to my dad, instead I've kept it.

The majority of my time is on the 16, but I like the 13 for lounging about in bed or just in general having a very portable laptop.

I get a lot of use out of syncthing.

This is the standard compromise with laptops.

If you want a portable computer to use in random locations small is important and so a 13 inch laptop (I don't know why metric measures are not used - though note that likely nothing is actually 13 inches either) is about the best size - large enough that you can see the screen and get a usable keyboard, but still small and easy to carry.

There are a lot of laptops where that is not the use case though. My company issues me a laptop and tells me to take it home every night - if there is a disaster I have everything I need to work at home - since COVID this has been used that way, but even back in the 1990s companies had everyone brings their laptop home as part of their disaster recovery plan. In this case the laptop is mostly used at a desk, and carried in a bag the rest of the time: weight cannot be unreasonable, but you can have a fair amount.

Thank you for posting, and I'm glad you're liking the experience! At times I've considered switching to the 16 from the 13, but my use case is similar to yours, and I need to remind myself that the switch doesn't make sense.

I hated the 16. Garbage QA, most notably the spacers that go to the left and/or right of the trackpad never sat flush with the case. Also at least one of the mainboard screw holes was stripped.

USB-A modules were extremely unreliable.

Display quality wasn't great, uneven lighting or artifacts from some pressure points or some such.

Ethernet module was very susceptible to losing connection if the cable moved ever so slightly the wrong way, no matter how firm the retention clip was.

I sold mine and went with an HP ZBook G1A instead. Better in every single regard.

So the issue seems to be to mostly be with the size of I’ve always gone with smaller laptops myself and had a desktop PC for more intensive stuff. I think large laptops are a bit of a dated concept from the days when people didn’t have iPads and phones and everyone just had a laptop that lived in their home.

Thanks for that.

I'd like to agree or disagree or make a comment or something, but Framework canceled my order because there ordering process is too strict with countries and payment.

I primarily bought this machine for AI, which its excellent for, bit I'm happy with the gaming performance too.

It can happily live on my desktop

Starting with a 16 instead of 13 would also free up expansion module slots (in addition to the fact that the 16 has six slots as opposed the 13's four slots). This mod uses one of the slots to run the keyboard, dials, etc. On the other hand, the 16's input module interface is a glorified USB 2.0 pinout that could be used for this instead, leaving all six expansion module slots free.

You're definitely gonna need a lot of air to carry that around.

Perfect for a brogrammer.

Wow I love the chonk. What a breath of freah air

It's big, but it could be bigger. I want it in an FW 16.

Also, a tungsten body. I want my muscles to scream when I pick it up.

It makes my downstairs parts all tingly, I want one.

how crap, yeah it's like 2inches T H I C K

She's a chonky framework now

The mod makes the repairable thin-and-light laptop significantly thicker

While I love every bit of what's going on here, "significantly thicker" doesn't even begin to describe things 😆

Thanks. I also noticed she kept pointing out things I thought were positives as negatives like, too many things to choose from, having to troubleshoot to install an OS that you want, paying extra (for the freedom), the name Laptop 13, etc. but I get it, she's trying to set expectations for people who are kind of new-ish to the scene.

I just need them to deliver to Japan, haha.

What a weird video.

Exuberance even.

No, she was complaining about things like the fans continually running when updating the bios. That happens because the temperature based fan control is switched off. It lives in the bios you're upgrading.

...or general Linux things which are just a bit different to what she's used to. As designed, with sound reasoning, just different.

I haven't watched the video, but the video is titled perfect Linux laptop and she's going on a rant?? Like... A positive rant about how good it is?