Framework Laptop 13 (2025) review: getting better with age

From the outside, the new of the framework Laptop 13 The same looks like the same for the last four years. But the modular, upgradeable, easily repaired laptop has changed in large quantities where the count has been counted: from the inside. It is getting quiet for 2025, which is usually boring enough for another laptop. But for this framework, improvement for new users is also an upgrade for everyone who has been purchased since 2021.

This is the beauty of a framework: a new model means a new processor and mainboard in which a computer you already have.

Now equipped with AMD Raisen AI 300 series chips, the laptop continues to provide a long shot promise framework 13 years ago, offering a laptop that allows you to pick up your ports and replace almost every component. Rab And SSD A Different keyboardsA little Cosmetic touchsAnd even A new screen. Its design can almost al -Most can be no change, but where other laptops make us feel lucky in getting a M.2 SSD slot accessible from the user, the framework 13 allows you to make your own style.

The biggest change for 2025 Framework laptop 13 Is it an AMD chip offering, which now starts with Raisen AI 5 340, starting in 0 1,099, Raizen AI 7 350 starts at $ 1,529, and Raizen A9HX 370 is $ 2,099. Main boards are also available separately, for those who already have a framework 13. at all 9 449 Raizen for 340, 99 699 For 350, and 99999 For HX 370.

Our review unit is one Diy edition AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 Chip, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, an optional 120hz 2880 x 1920 Matt display, and a couple Parbassi Bezels (I have chosen to install Green for touch Hello Vibes). The laptop 13 has four extension card slots, and my review unit has come with five converted cards: two USB-C, one USB-A, display port, and one Ethernet jack that emits thin chassis.

In addition to some new colors options for Bezel and Extension Card, laptops look like previous generations. It has some small refreshments: Wi -Fi 7, a new thermal cooling system that has a large heat pipe, and a small keyboard dispersion that prevents long keys from echoing while blowing the speaker. The speakers of the framework are in the best middle, but Somebody Enough to get the frigin keys shaking should be greatly jammed. My Overview Unit also includes the latest framework introduced with its Intel Core Ultra model last year, such as 120H Heritz screen and a better webcam, both available as an existing laptop upgrade.

Like the last generation AMD model, the new framework 13-based extension slots are not the same. The backbone supports the USB4 while the front is two USB 3.2. All four support display port, though the left front is 1.4 while the remaining 2.0. So, yes, you can potentially push the video to four display. These are not limits in the Intel model. All four of its extension slot support USB4.

I recommend the DIY edition, even if you are not a tankering type. This is less expensive and gives you more setting options. This is also the cheapest way to get a 120 -he feet screen – pre -bullets come with only 60 herts display.

It was easy and fun to set our DIY review unit. It took me 30 minutes to open it, clip in Ram, screw in M2SD, and attach a keyboard deck and magnetic bezel. Even if you are absolutely new to it, with clear pictures and video clips, the framework step -by -step direction, make it a breeze. It took more time Sort the way Windows 11 I like.

The new framework is a beautiful little laptop. Its 3: 2 screen aspect ratio is very good for production capacity, which gives you more commonly vertical than 16: 9 and 16:10 screens, and its battery continues for an eight -hour work day. This last gene feels like an incentive and an AMD model, when there is a touch of extra softening in 120 he feet when the plug is (as default, Windows hit you on the battery on 60 hits, even though you can override it).

Its track pads are fully in the capacity of passing, but it still tears up with a cheap laptop. On the previous generation models I never had a problem with the keys to the keys (I think I was never cool enough to pump the speaker quite loudly), but I keep enjoying the keyboard of this framework. It has a key journey of 1.5 mm, which looks good overall, though I prefer more touching than that.

I rarely listen to fans using slack and Google documents that have dozens of chrome tabs open, and it gets a bit warm to touch it. (The fans don’t even look as much as Intel models.)

Eight Core AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 Chip Multiwar CPU performance is 22 % faster than the final framework model, though it is slightly lower for graphics work due to its less powerful integrated GPU. The 350 chip gack bench is 6.4 GPU score Intel Core Ultra 7 155H model less than 34 %, and Raizen is 23 % lower than the last gene AMD model with 7 7840u. But the framework is also available for $ 430 with 13 rising AI 9 HX 370. This is the same Strexpoint chip we have seen in ASUS Zen Bok S16, among others, more powerful GPU than one of the old framework.

Raizen AI 350 Light Duty Photoshop and Light Room Classical Work Enough is quite powerful, but the screen of the framework 13 is washed away for work-dependent tasks. I love that this 2880 x 1920 is the fade panel is 120 hez, but the color and the opposite are declining, such as the actual 60 hits of the framework, 2256 x 1504 display, which is still the sole option for pre -bilates. The 2880 x 1920 panels are quite bright in 500 knots, but the color quality is modest.

Configurer of the framework Our review unit is priced at $ 1,781 (not counting Windows 11 licenses). This entry level is well in the M4 MacBook Pro area and so is about a large Asus Zenbook s 16 which has HX 370 CPU. The framework receives 0 2,099 for pre -built -in with this chip.

The 9999 m4 m4 MacBook Air Single Core Performance Blows the Framework 13 chips out of the water, has a good screen, and is longer on the battery. But after your order in MacBook, nothing has to be upgraded.

If you value repair and upgrade in the laptop, there is no competition for the framework 13. What a great fan of this company, and with the framework 13, it fulfills its promise of a modular, repair, upgradeable laptop.

Certainly, some components of the framework 13 are entering for money. But no other laptop maker stands with standstone parts as well as a new model that existing owners can buy to upgrade their laptop. Imagine if Apple MacBook Air owners only buy M4 Mainboard when launching a full new laptop instead of a full new laptop?

What began as an unforgivable start in 2021 has become a standard beer for large laptop brands for an interesting and viable alternative and repair right. Framework Market Place Once a city was a past, but now it is full with alternative parts and ready upgrades.

The framework laptop 13 is now a proven platform. The company’s upcoming desktops and budget 12 -inch laptops are less clear. Will they make sustainable successful films like Laptop 13 despite the ongoing tariff chaos? Or will they continue, like laptop 16, do not do it? I can’t say yet, but more modular, marir.

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