Framework Laptop 13 Pro promises more battery life, performance and metal

[Redaktion]

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is just as modular as the older Framework Laptop 13, but the new model promises higher performance and a much longer battery life in a stylish metal casing.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Framework-Laptop-13-Pro-promises-more-battery-life-performance-and-metal.1280024.0.html

[Swizzy]

Hope they survive the price increases. With some ram and an ssd you're looking at £1550 minimum.

[Worgarthe]

Quite an amazing laptop (also great presentation by Framework). I definitely don't need it, but I totally want it.

[T. Fletcher]

Not quite my tempo. But they're getting close and I like that.

[But(t)]

This: 13.5 inch display at 1.4 kg.
MacBook Air 13: 13.6 inch display at 1.2 kg and the Air is cheaper too, due to economies of scale.
Yes, the Air is much less/not repairable, but, let's be honest, you are not going to need a repair anyway.

The Intel version relies on modern LPCAMM2 RAM.

Do they explain, why AMDone is treated as a 3rd world citizen? I guess it doesn't matter since the APU has the outdated RDNA3.5 iGPU architecture:
Imagine getting this outdated RDNA3.5 APU that can't do modern, DLSS-like, hardware ML upscaling, like RDNA4 can. Way to waste your money.

The leaked FSR4 INT8 looks so much better on RDNA3 / RDNA3.5, than what RDNA3 / RDNA3.5 officially support, but AMD is quiet about it (they are not the good guys (anymore/if they ever were)):
youtube.com/watch?v=VPMOjdvmHMk "FSR4 on RDNA3 on Windows!!! How To Guide and Side by Sides Tested on RX 7800 XT"
youtube.com/watch?v=yB0qmTCzrmI "AMD Tried To Hide This From You - FSR 4 INT8 on RDNA 3 & 2 Tested"

youtube.com/watch?v=v70p700D94U And here Owen shows that even AMD's /r/radeon hardcore crowd is starting to get pissed off on AMD for also not releasing FSR4 INT8 (and righteously so, of course).

Bandwidth:
Air 15 M5: 153.6 GB/s = 9600 MT/s * 128-bit / 1000 / 8.
AMDone version of this: 89.6 GB/s = 5600 MT/s * 128-bit / 1000 / 8.
The Air is 71% faster.

Unfortunately, the Air goes only up to 32 GB RAM. APPLE, it's time to fix this next year, as we all know that higher memory densities are available: 64 GB per RAM stick are available since early 2025 and a RAM stick uses 64 bits, so the Air could theoretically have 128 GB RAM/unified memory. With a higher memory bandwidth in 2027 using LPDDR6 (LPDDR5X is kinda maxed out), more RAM, a faster iGPU would also justify having more RAM. Let's say 25% higher memory bandwidth next year: 32 GB * 1.25 = 40 GB -> 48 GB for the Air M6 hopefully in 2027 (expecting more would be unrealistic as it would cannibalize the MacBook Pro sales).