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Framework CEO Nirav Patel is showing off his company’s latest modular, repairable laptops in San Francisco today. The headliner is the new Laptop 13 Pro, which is its first machine fully machined out of aluminum, and Patel says its goal is to be “the MacBook Pro for Linux users.”
Read on below for all the updates from Framework’s April 2026 event.
Framework’s first laptop sleeve is made of space-age Tyvek.
Don’t call it duct-tape! Tyvek is a plastic that feels (and creases) like paper, similarly made of fibers bonded together. I have a wallet made of the stuff. The bag has dedicated pockets for Framework’s Expansion Cards, screwdriver, and up to a 13-inch laptop. Comes in silver or black.
1/2A silver bag Image: Framework
Hmm… 🤔 that photo in Framework’s keynote looks familiar.
Framework announces Laptop 13 Pro, ‘the MacBook Pro for Linux users’
Every time we review a Framework laptop, we find familiar pros and cons. They’re truly upgradable, incredibly repairable, but we always wish the battery lasted longer. We always wish the build quality were top notch.
Today, Framework is announcing what could be the answer: the Framework Laptop 13 Pro.
Framework’s first eGPUs turn its laptop into a desktop PC
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Remember when Framework made the first laptop where you can easily upgrade its entire internal video card in three minutes flat? The company’s getting into the external graphics game, too. As promised last August, you’ll be able to turn the Framework Laptop 16’s GPU modules into external ones instead. Or, you can plug in a desktop graphics card (or network card, or other PCIe cards) for more power than most laptops ever dream of having, with eight lanes of PCI-Express bandwidth.
Framework’s calling it the OCuLink Dev Kit, because it uses the OCuLink standard to transmit data between your CPU and the external GPU, and because the company wants you to know this isn’t exactly a consumer friendly product. “It’s not like Thunderbolt where it’s a simple plug-and-play solution,” Framework CEO Nirav Patel tells The Verge. “It’s for that enthusiast or power user.”
Framework is filling the Laptop 16’s literal gaps with one-piece touchpad and keyboard decks.
The Framework Laptop 16 is the most modular laptop ever made — but we’ve never been huge fans of the uneven and occasionally creaky spacers that let you shift the keyboard and touchpad left and right. Here are new one-piece versions. The touchpad might feel nicer now it’s haptic, too! Waiting to hear price on these.
1/5First, the new touchpad and the original keyboard. Image: Framework
Framework is building a better couch keyboard because everyone hates the Logitech one
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If you have a wireless keyboard with a touchpad that lets you control your PC from across the room, chances are it’s a Logitech K400. Framework CEO Nirav Patel is betting that you hate using it — enough to buy Framework’s spin on the idea when it arrives later this year.
He says that Logitech’s keyboard is precisely the reason he’s building a new one: “It’s that Logitech keyboard that everybody owns and nobody likes,” he tells me. “Everybody’s got the same keyboard, nobody likes that keyboard, and so we figured we can build a better keyboard.”
Framework says new Laptop 13 Pro has more Netflix battery life than an M5 MacBook Pro.
20 hours of 4K Netflix, says CEO Nirav Patel. It’s got a Core Ultra 3 chip, a 22 percent larger and denser battery, a custom 30-120Hz VRR screen and LPCAMM2 compression mounted memory. Full story coming soon.
Stick a 10Gbps port into your Framework Desktop or Laptop.
“The industry wants you to own nothing and be happy. We want you to own everything and be free.”
That’s Framework CEO Nirav Patel, with a message that’s sure to resonate with his modular computer company’s fanbase. He briefly joked that Framework would announce “Framework AI” today.
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