Got my new FW 13, AMD, DIY version. It took all of 10 minutes to go from opening the shipping box to having a fully assembled, powered up laptop.
So I built a "whitebook’ Asus Z96J back in like 2008 or so, and it wasn’t that hard but it was definitely not this easy. Opening the packaging was harder than assembling the computer. This was so damn simple, I feel almost cheated. Anyone else ever had this sense?
Incredible engineering on the part of the entire framework team. If FW 16 has even half this level of simplicity yet polish, they ought to sell a billion of them.
It took me like 20 minutes, because I was looking closely at every packaging and enjoying the process of putting it together.
But yeah, it was quick and easy and installing windows, drivers and updating bios was flawless. I was expecting it to be more difficult and problematic.
Also I adore the tiny thoughtful details like the little loop on the keyboard ribbon cable to put your finger through.