For the previous 5 years, we’ve been paying a great deal of attention to Framework, the upstart PC business concentrated on modular, repairable, upgradeable, and personalized laptop computer styles.

Far, Framework has actually done a strong task of providing a consistent stream of hardware upgrades for its systems, especially the initial Framework Laptop 13. The business’s track record on software application assistance– consisting of BIOS updates and motorist updates with efficiency enhancements, bug repairs, and crucial security updates– has actually been more of a blended bag.

Since our piece in April 2024, numerous versions of the Laptop 13 board had actually gone years without a BIOS upgrade or upgraded chauffeur bundle. The very first model of the laptop computer still just had “beta” assistance for Windows 11, which had actually been out for 2.5 years already, and the business was likewise having a hard time to offer Linux assistance and assured practical upgrades for other designs.

We spoke to Framework CEO Nirav Patel for that post, who acknowledged the problems and supplied some descriptions– primarily, that Framework is a little business which it counts on upstream hardware makers like Intel and AMD for some updates. He likewise assured that enhancements were coming.

Patel stated that a devoted group at Compal, the white-box PC producing business that makes the majority of Framework’s hardware, had actually been worked with and was being onboarded. And when that group depended on speed, the strategy was to constantly cycle through Framework’s whole brochure of old and existing items, making certain that no design was ignored for long.

Patel’s “mid-summer [2024]” timeline for making these modifications ended up being a bit positive, however it does appear as though the group has actually materialized development over the previous fiscal year approximately.

Genuine enhancements

This thread on Framework’s Reddit provides a top-level summary of the release dates for Framework’s motorist bundles and BIOS updates, and, for all its items returning to 2021’s 11th-gen Intel Core variation of the very first Framework Laptop, the business has actually delivered a minimum of one BIOS upgrade in the previous 8 months. The majority of designs have actually seen a minimum of one upgrade in calendar 2025. The motorist plans tend to be a bit older, however the earliest ones are from June 2024, and the Core Ultra Framework Laptop and all AMD designs have actually gotten at least one motorist plan upgrade in 2025.