Hopefully this inspires thinkpads to go back to their roots.

I love mine but I’ve noticed some of these same issues, the spacers aren’t perfect and it does get hot as hell while charging. I only have the integrated graphics though I didn’t get the extra. My fans haven’t ever gotten loud, at first I was concerned they weren’t running, and I’ll have to look into the veribrightness thing, idk about all that. I really don’t mind the spacers though, I got the numpad so I only have the bottom ones and the only issue is looks, idgaf.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

You can transform it from a sleek work laptop to a decent gaming machine in two minutes flat, one which charges with the world’s first 180W USB-C power adapter.

The product gave me multiple Blue Screens of Death, glitched, felt flimsy in places, and ran hotter and louder than its performance would suggest.

I’m happy to say I’ve only seen the computer fail once during that entire month — an “It looks like Windows didn’t load correctly” error I haven’t been able to reproduce.

We even figured out my mystery issue where the excellent 2560 x 1600 screen would suddenly seem to wash out — that’s due to AMD’s Vari-Bright setting, which attempts to save battery when the integrated GPU is in command.

Despite this replacement coming with a slightly weaker 7840HS, I’ve measured 100.8°C at peak while playing a game — and as high as 92.5°C one day when I was just writing a story in a web browser.

After a month, I’ve decided I could live with the lid flex and the uneven surfaces created by Framework’s modular spacers and touchpad.

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