I pre-ordered this, 2nd batch, and have been awaiting the charge/shipping confirmation (which was originally scheduled to be last month, some more delay is unde

I pre-ordered this, 2nd batch, and have been awaiting the charge/shipping confirmation (which was originally scheduled to be last month, some more delay is understandable, but kinda annoying that they didn't communicate more about updated expected shipping window for batches 2+). Browsing their forums, I'm a little disheartened to see that it appears that the Intel 12th gen model has yet to get a stable firmware update - there was a beta bios released last December, windows installer only, and it often fails, and at that point they seem to have just gotten stuck. I totally understand not being able to fix some things that some demanding users keep yelling about, but not being able to make any stable release with any fixes is ... a bit scary. Not releasing the stand-alone EFI or self-booting firmware-update installer variant first is also a head-scratcher. I really had the opposite impression before I recently started digging into their forums. The Intel 11th gen model seems to have gotten a few good firmware updates. They had this whole blog post about how they updated the 12th gen firmware for full Thunderbolt certification of the usb-c ports. ... but that's the update that they can't actually get a stable release of, for over 9 months now ... I'm still rooting for them, and hoping this is just one speed-bump. Links: https://community.frame.work/t/12th-gen-intel-core-bios-3-06-beta/25726 https://community.frame.work/t/12th-gen-intel-core-bios-3-06... https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbolt-4-certified https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbol...