Framework Laptop 13 Pro pre-orders will arrive about a month late. On June 10, the company told customers that first shipments now slip from late June to late July, and it warned that some units could land in early August.
Framework caught both problems while preparing the laptop for volume manufacturing. “As we were preparing Framework Laptop 13 Pro for mass production ramp, we discovered two issues, one on the new haptic touchpad and another on the custom display,” the company wrote in an email to pre-order customers. Engineers have since traced both bugs to their root causes and locked in fixes.
A touchpad bug forced a board respin
The bigger culprit is the new haptic touchpad. During testing, a rare bug caused the touchpad to reset itself after repeated clicking. Framework traced it to an electrical grounding issue in the circuit board design, so it ordered a new PCB revision and prepared a firmware update for boards already built. “Because of that, we are holding production to wait for the new PCB, which will be used for all shipments,” the company said.
The second issue sat in the custom display. One panel failed to initialize properly during testing. Framework worked with the panel manufacturer on updated display firmware, which should keep the bug from ever reaching customer machines.
What the delay means for each batch
The schedule shift cascades down the pre-order queue. July batches will likely move to August, and late-August batches carry some risk of slipping into September. Even so, Framework expects to catch up with its original batch targets by September.
Not everything is delayed, however. Mainboard-only orders still ship on the original schedule, and replacement or repair modules are unaffected. Framework is also making its LPCAMM2 memory modules available with mainboard orders, since the new format remains hard to find at retail. Anyone unwilling to wait can back out, because pre-order deposits stay fully refundable.
Why expectations are high
The Laptop 13 Pro is Framework’s most ambitious machine yet. Announced in April as a ground-up redesign of the Framework Laptop 13, it pairs Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” chips with upgradeable LPCAMM2 memory, a 74Wh battery, a full CNC aluminum chassis, and a 2880×1920 touch display that refreshes at up to 120Hz. Pricing starts at $1,199 for the DIY Edition and $1,499 for pre-built configurations.
Memory pricing has been the other pressure point for the company this year. Framework raised RAM and SSD prices again in May as the volatile memory market pushed costs up across the industry. Against that backdrop, a one-month slip to fix a touchpad board and display firmware reads like the cheaper kind of problem. Buyers get the laptop later, but they get one that works out of the box.
