The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is the company's answer to a tradeoff it has lived with since its first model: letting owners repair and upgrade their own laptops has always meant battery life that lagged the sealed, glued-shut competition. It is what founder Nirav Patel described as six years of owner feedback distilled into a single redesign: a 74Wh battery, a 22 percent capacity jump over the outgoing model, paired with Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chips to push runtime past 20 hours on 4K streaming, a figure Framework says edges out even a 14-inch MacBook Pro on the same test.
The battery gain comes from more than a bigger cell. Framework moved to LPCAMM2, an upgradeable memory format that runs LPDDR5X at speeds up to 7467 MT/s, replacing the power-hungrier DDR5 modules of prior generations while keeping memory user-swappable in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities. Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 contributes its own share, built on an 18A process with a heterogeneous core mix, including four low-power efficiency cores that Framework says let video playback run almost silently while barely touching the battery. It is the first Framework Laptop 13 with a fully machined 6063 aluminum chassis, PCIe 5.0 storage, Wi-Fi 7, and a haptic touchpad, alongside a new 13.5-inch, 2880x1920 display that finally adds touch support, a feature owners had requested for years.
Pricing starts at $1,199 for the DIY edition and $1,499 prebuilt, with first units shipping in June, and Framework is also selling the new mainboard and display separately so owners of the original Laptop 13 can drop the upgraded parts into their existing chassis rather than buying a whole new machine. That backward-compatible upgrade path is the part a sealed laptop cannot offer at any price, and it is the clearest proof yet that Framework's repairability pitch was never just marketing.
The company is also leaning further into Linux support, shipping its first Ubuntu-certified configuration with Ubuntu pre-loaded as a buying option alongside Windows 11 and DIY bring-your-own-OS builds. That is a bet that Framework's audience, developers and power users who value the ability to open up their hardware, skews more toward Linux than the broader laptop market does, and it is a bet few larger OEMs are willing to make at this scale.
Framework calls this its internal goal of building "the MacBook Pro for Linux users," a framing that only holds up if the battery and performance claims survive independent testing once review units land. The company has said it will publish its own battery test methodology alongside the launch, an unusual level of transparency for a device-life claim, and one that will let outside reviewers check the number against the same test rather than take it on faith.
