Image description: Image shows batches 1, 2 and 3 sold out for the Ryzen 7 7840HS which costs $1,399.

For now both DIY and prebuild edition (all configurations) are in batch 4 which ships in late Q4 2023.

    • WrittenWeird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Big-yet-thin, affordable Ryzen laptops with the option to add a real GPU to, that are just as upgradeable (component wise, if not market-availability wise) as a desktop?

      Demand is high. Demand will remain high.

      • steltek@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I can’t be the only one waiting to see more “real people” reviews of production units before plunking down money. I don’t upgrade laptops frequently and I don’t want to buy something buggy (i.e. Linux compatibility for wifi, ACPI, battery life, etc).

        And while I’m waiting, I haven’t looked into a good answer to the USB-C dock story for the AMD versions. I see a lot of ambiguous statements about USB4 “being Thunderbolt” but not a lot of concrete statements on compatibility and capability.

    • MisterD@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      If you find the Linus tech tips video on Linus’s investment in the company, you might see why. Very interesting!

      • TechnoBabble@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I thought it was insane that they take apart a fully built laptop to sell the diy version.

        It’s way more work for Framework, but they charge less for the diy model.

        I wonder if user comfort with modifying internals on the diy model creates more sales in the long run, because customers can visualize what they’d be doing when installing an upgrade.

    • slackj_87@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Their website crashed shortly after pre-orders went live. Could be a coincidence, could be high demand. Could also be crappy server infrastructure.

    • uthredii@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Previous products took much longer for batches to sell out. Even the AMD framework 13 laptops didn’t sell this fast and they were the #1 thing the community had been asking for for about a year.

      We (sadly) can’t tell how many units are in a batch. But we can tell that demand is far exceeding their expectations.