To be honest, Alex criticized the keyboard pretty hard due flexing and suggested to put thermal pads below. About Linus, from what I saw he always disclosed his investment.

Unfortunately it isn’t available on my market yet and I need to get a new laptop

I’m always a little worried when I see things like reviews from companys that have an ownership stake in the other without disclosure. In this case, Linus’s of LTT’s stake in Framework is probably already widely known among people seeing this post. And, to his credit is always disclosed on LTT videos as far as I know. But it still feels a bit shady for Framework to tout a positive review without that disclosure. It just makes me wonder what other business relationships I might be missing.

In this case I think it’s probably still a very good product. I personally recently decided against a framework because I couldn’t justify the price delta for something I really only use occasionally because I’ll always default to my desktop.

Like the other two so far I haven’t. I don’t pre-order anything, and with the issues we’ve seen from framework on the 13 inch specifically needing to solder the main board and an hdmi expansion card I think I’m right to stay like that. I love my framework 13 now but I’m very, very glad I waited until people had it for a while. The early adopters get something cool quick, but the price is clear. Quite often, especially with a companies first offering in a class or field, new products have issues that’ll only become well known when users get that in their hands and use it for a good while.

I’m going to wait until 6-8 months after the first batch is recieved to replace my omen-15, which is still quite reasonable for my at home use case