Remember when I upgraded a laptop’s entire GPU in just three minutes and filmed it for you? It wasn’t the only first I filmed that day! Here’s my Today I’m Toying With video hands-on with Framework’s industry-first standards-based 240W USB-C PD charging system. Look ma: no barrel jacks!
Few handheld gaming PCs have OLED screens — fewer of those have variable refresh rates. The Legion Go 2 has those and sustained brightness of 500 nits, peaking at 1000 nits, in a native landscape orientation to avoid panel refresh weirdness! According to Evan Blass’s huge new dump of leaked images, anyhow.
Antonio didn’t have a problem with noise in our review: “The fan often goes whisper-quiet [...] you’ll hear it spin up for some short stretches, but it quickly quiets back down until you’re doing something more intensive.”
But Noctua says these two free files can reduce sound another five decibels.
Obvious joke aside: if bigger is better, why not 43 inches? Why not 49? Why not 42 or 48? Samsung suggests 37 is best because it’s not much bigger than 32. But if the goal is 32+ while saving space, why not make it taller instead of wider? 16:10 not 16:9!
This is the Framework Laptop 16, and the company tells me I’m the first journalist to do this thing: show proof that upgrading a laptop’s GPU can be as easy as upgrading a desktop one. Alienware whiffed on this idea, but Framework is delivering. More on this right here.
In the company’s Q2 2026 earnings, Nvidia specifically says the RTX 5060 “quickly became NVIDIA’s fastest-ramping x60-class GPU ever.”
So we’d best get ready for more of this:
