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Framework Laptop 16 review: two weeks with the ultimate modular laptop

There’s nothing else like it.

Plugged into the wall, I averaged over 60 frames per second in older games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla at 2560 x 1600 resolution and highest settings — minus raytracing, where AMD’s mobile GPUs still suck and the 7700S is no exception. I genuinely can’t believe a laptop is making it to market with such a cool, concept-y feature like hot-swappable keyboards, touchpads, LED modules and spacers, ones that snap into place with magnets and use loads of pogo pins to power and transfer data and detect which items are where. It’s not a company with a perfect track record; it’s made a number of little hardware mistakes along the way, whether it’s something as simple as cheaply EMI shielding a USB port or discovering late that its older HDMI and DisplayPort modules created vampire power drain.

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