So the hardware is capable but the Linux distros aren’t quite there yet?

Fingers crossed for them then. I love the idea of a Framework laptop but I’m only interested in Linux performance.

> but the Linux distros aren’t quite there yet?

I just went by what Framework said on release a few weeks or month back. Maybe you can find a more up to date Linux test somewhere.

And I bet you can soon get a ThinkPad with the same intel chip, that should have similar battery life.

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mike97 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> And I bet you can soon get a ThinkPad with the same intel chip, that should have similar battery life.

Yes you can, speaking from experience. I have the T14 gen 7 with the 75 wh battery, and the 356H CPU, it only uses 4-6w/hour when coding with a lot of browser tabs open, a headless VM running, docker containers and so on, online meetings is about 6-8w/hour, this is under Linux, with default power setting from Opensuse.

It can easily last more than 10 working hours, I limit mine to 80% charge as it's more than enough for when I'm on the go.

	▲	Mashimo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Nice. I still rock the Gen 1 or 2 T14. Works for me, just wish I had a better display. It's possible to upgrade it, just so much conflicting information out there.