Lots of improvements, but fundamentally a weaker proposition than the Ryzen mainboard.
The Framework 13 is still my favourite laptop, for all the company's dogged commitment to upgradeability and longevity. But this latest Intel Core Ultra mainboard, thanks to the weaker Meteor Lake hardware, feels like a bit of a backward step despite the advances in battery life and cooling it brings.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.The little Framework 13 laptop is one of my most favourite ever notebooks.
And it's a really pleasing experience. Everything's snugly boxed up, with the main unit already made up with the mainboard, screen, and associated Wi-Fi and webcam modules, and you're left to install the RAM, SSD, I/O modules, bezel, and keyboard. But, as you can see from the benchmark numbers, the Ryzen chip is still the king of gaming and productivity performance. And, honestly, I'll take the louder fans for the extra performance. It's not really even about extra frame rates, or faster rendering, either, it's about the consistency of performance. I've found it rare in my long experience for an Intel device to be more flaky than a comparative AMD one, but that's where we are here.
Frustratingly, you still have no control over how the system is set up in terms of anything more granular than Windows' own three power levels, and there is no hint of fan control on offer for any Framework owners. I ache for a bit of controller software like Ayaneo's AyaSpace app, which gives you almost endless control over its mini PCs and gaming handhelds.That would allow you to squeeze a bit more gaming battery life out of your device, as you can do on modern handheld PCs.
What I will say, however, is that the ghosting is not gone. There is still a certain amount of it present with this panel, and that can lead to a slightly smeary effect when things are moving around the screen at speed, with you losing some detail in the image. It's better than the previous panel, for sure, but not night and day.This is the best Intel mainboard that Framework offers, and if you're looking to upgrade your ageing 11th Gen laptop, this mainboard will do it.
And just feels a lot more unreliable in terms of what level of performance you're going to get out of it on a per-app, per-game basis. The Ryzen 7 7840U is utterly consistent, and you really know what you're going to get—namely top gaming performance and an eminently powerful eight-core Zen 4 processor.
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