Framework’s franken-laptop is back with big chip upgrades and familiar frustrations

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Framework's Laptop 16 offers modular upgrades like new AMD CPUs, Wi-Fi 7, and a user-replaceable GPU, but retains familiar design frustrations. It maintains its repairable and upgradeable ethos, with parts sold separately for existing owners.

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A 2025 Framework Laptop 16 on a desk with keyboard, RGB macro pad, and prototype single-piece trackpad all attached to it. Beside it are a collection of decorative modules that can be attached. — The new Laptop 16 is a lot like the original on the outside, though here it’s shown with a prototype 3D-printed trackpad surround that’s a single piece.

Framework did it again. It promised modular, upgradeable, and user-repairable laptops where other manufacturers dare not venture or have outright failed. And it's delivered.

The 2025 version of the Framework Laptop 16 comes with not only new AMD Ryzen AI CPU options, but also Wi-Fi 7, a more powerful USB-C charger, redesigned cooling, and a new webcam - all of which are also sold separately, so existing owners can upgrade. But the biggest bump by far is a more powerful user-replaceable graphics card. The modular, removable GPU is what separates the Laptop 16 from any other laptop on the market. When it announced the Laptop 16, Framework ca …

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