The recent price increase on the MacBooks tipped me towards pre-ordering a ~700 USD more expensive Framework because I believed in the product. Now, to keep my same configuration Framework is effectively asking me to dish out another 300 USD on top of that. Its very unfortunate but consumers really got the short end of the stick here.
Unfortunately for Framework I am not willing to pay this delta and will go with Apple for now - bitter to not have pulled the trigger a few weeks earlier.
I'm still considering whether to cancel or simply make do with 32GB memory. I initially ordered 64GB as I'd like to not worry about memory usage all that much. But getting the 32GB option for the original price (before price increase) seems like a reasonable solution to me. I can always upgrade later. I feel more sorry for those now bumped down from 32 to 16 GB. The latter is barely usable as an enthusiast dev PC these days.
It is unfortunate that Framework has sold priced pre-orders for batches they haven't secured supplier contracts for. Or maybe they did, but the supplier decided to void their contract releasing the same product for twice the amount. Hard to know what goes on inside these companies. In any case the AI bubble is doing a number on consumer market hardware.
I want to support Framework's mission, but this is a crappy situation all around. Definitely a mark on Framework's reputation, and also annoying for those who know need to dish out more money or not get the product they were promised at the price-point that was indicated at purchase.
The recent price increase on the MacBooks tipped me towards pre-ordering a ~700 USD more expensive Framework because I believed in the product. Now, to keep my same configuration Framework is effectively asking me to dish out another 300 USD on top of that. Its very unfortunate but consumers really got the short end of the stick here. Unfortunately for Framework I am not willing to pay this delta and will go with Apple for now - bitter to not have pulled the trigger a few weeks earlier.
I'm still considering whether to cancel or simply make do with 32GB memory. I initially ordered 64GB as I'd like to not worry about memory usage all that much. But getting the 32GB option for the original price (before price increase) seems like a reasonable solution to me. I can always upgrade later. I feel more sorry for those now bumped down from 32 to 16 GB. The latter is barely usable as an enthusiast dev PC these days.
It is unfortunate that Framework has sold priced pre-orders for batches they haven't secured supplier contracts for. Or maybe they did, but the supplier decided to void their contract releasing the same product for twice the amount. Hard to know what goes on inside these companies. In any case the AI bubble is doing a number on consumer market hardware.
I want to support Framework's mission, but this is a crappy situation all around. Definitely a mark on Framework's reputation, and also annoying for those who know need to dish out more money or not get the product they were promised at the price-point that was indicated at purchase.
There's a more thorough update from them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1pkgdg6/updates_...