Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

6mo

Upgrading my Framework 16 took about three hours, but was otherwise painless. Windows did need me to re-set-up my fingerprint and pin after changing the entire motherboard, and I had to re-enter my bitlocker recovery key. But that process was accessible.

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clv1 has moved @clv1@mastodon.social

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@fastfinge Please have you already written any Framework 16 review? I'm interested in things like whether the keyboard has keys distinguishable enough, whether keyboard sections are clearly split, whether it lacks any important key such as right control which has been replaced by Copilot key on newer laptops, how about audio quality, if there are problems with any hardware driver for Windows, etc.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@clv1 I haven't written any review. But to quickly answer your questions:
* no critical keys are missing, at least on the North American keyboard layout, and I also have the number pad module. The only missing keys from a full keyboard are the six pack (home/end, page up/down, etc.)
* the keys are fine, though there is no gap between the function keys, and no dot on f4, f8, etc.
* However, the laptop runs hot enough that I prefer to leave it on a table and use a wireless keyboard, instead of holding the laptop on my lap
* Audio quality is fair, once you enable the NVDA or jaws feature that stops the sound system from falling asleep. It's just the standard real tech audio chip that's on pretty much all laptops these days
* Framework updates the driver bundle regularly, and the driver and bios updaters are fully accessible
* The only problems come if you allow Windows Update to install driver updates. Sometimes it installs incorrect drivers and you have to use system restore to roll back an update
* If you live with others: the fans are extremely! loud when the laptop is busy. If someone was trying to, for example, watch TV or listen to music while you were gaming on the laptop, they would get quite annoyed

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@fastfinge thanks a lot! I use an USB keyboard with my 14" laptop as well. I would only buy a 16" if I was going to use its own keyboard, otherwise I don't find worth the bigger size. From your description, the keyboard is close to the Dell Inspirons before the Copilot key, except that the Inspiron has the six keys pad, albeit disposed in another layout.

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@fastfinge I have a curiosity from your answer to me yesterday: what are the manufacturers that put dots on the f4 and f8 keys on their laptops? So far, I owned two laptops by Dell and one by HP, and no one had such dots.

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