No, battery life isn't on par.

The only way to get the battery life Framework advertised is on Windows' 'Ultra Efficiency' mode which cuts CPU performance by 25-50%, lowers brightness by 30% and deprioritizes everything in the background to such an extreme that responsiveness of those is measured in seconds.

It is not comparable at all to M-series or Snapdragon laptops happily chugging along at full capability and getting (compared to AMD / Intel) stellar battery life.

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bogzz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They're talking about the new model announced, with a larger battery and ARM architecture. Not released yet, I don't think.

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wolttam 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The new Framework Pros are still x86, but the newest Intel generation appears to provide a substantial boost to efficiency.

	▲	chaosharmonic an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Also, jumping on the LPCAMM train early creates an eventual path for ARM boards without soldered RAM.

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freedomben 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Correct, it's in pre order now. It is actually x86 though, not arm

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dwedge 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The new model is Intel or amd unless I missed something. They said in the video the battery life was entirely from video playback, which can be run on efficiency mode

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bogzz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

My apologies, I don't know where I got the ARM architecture part from. I really want one of those machines, but I guess if they can't approach MacBook battery life yet I'm stuck on MacOS for now.

	▲	dwedge 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think they said 22 hours of video playback in the video. If it even gets half of that for normal usage I'd be sold, the only thing stopping me giving it a shot is they are currently more expensive than the MBP and I'm not sure if they are worth it until the first reviews come in
	▲	preisschild 36 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There is a framework mainboard being made by a 3rd party vendor https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/arm-mainboard-for-fra...

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