Framework is remarkable. Intel MacBook Pro power in MacBook Air footprint. The build quality is far better than first gen devices, if not second. Given enough

Framework is remarkable. Intel MacBook Pro power in MacBook Air footprint. The build quality is far better than first gen devices, if not second. Given enough time, it might be able to get many people off macOS. The screen is amazingly crisp if you can overlook the fun resolution. Hard to look past 3x2. Why did I return it? I realized I needed to begin with a retail and turnkey Ubuntu experience where everything just worked and the things that mattered to me worked out of the box. Framework is not quite an optimized retail Ubuntu experience yet like a Dell XPS with mature drivers largely ready to go. - Battery life isn’t optimized and maximized out of the box, you will have to tpm. I have limited time for this at present. I’m sure there’s lots of interpretations that is not a a big deal. I’d rather be solving problems with the laptop than be solving problems in the laptop. I want max battery life without investing hours up front. - Fingerprint reader required manual setup - Wifi can have hiccups on the latest Ubuntu, and without trying into optimizing battery and kernels upset instead of getting things done. - Touchpad is so so. Good hardware, maybe more tweaking in Linux needed. Very used to macOS too. - HDMI port draws extra battery life when not in use so you have to to keep it removed. The components otherwise seem high quality and well put together. Again it’s not that these issues can’t be overcome, or that they won’t be out of the box in the future, I simply don’t have the time for either at present. It was a joy to use for browsing in Ubuntu 21.04 as stuff is broken in 21.10.