Framework has confirmed it should now not be opening US preorders for the brand new Laptop 12 as we speak, or asserting a value, because it evaluates the influence of Trump’s tariffs. The modular, convertible laptop computer will nonetheless be out there later as we speak for consumers elsewhere, together with Canada and Europe.
The Laptop 12 is Framework’s smallest laptop computer but, and its first convertible touchscreen mannequin. It comes with a thirteenth Gen Intel Core i3 or i5 chip, a 1920×1200 touchscreen with stylus assist, and as much as 48GB of RAM and 2TB of storage. Like different Framework {hardware}, it’s modular and repairable. It additionally ships in a pastel pink and mint end that we’re fairly keen on.
Although the corporate hasn’t introduced pricing, it pitched the 12-inch laptop computer as an “entry-level” mannequin at a “decrease value” than the Laptop 13. That mannequin now begins at $899 for a DIY model, or $1,099 for a prebuilt one, after the corporate “paused” gross sales on a number of the cheaper Laptop 13 fashions within the US to keep away from promoting them at a loss after factoring within the new tariffs.
Framework manufactures its merchandise in Taiwan, which is topic to a 32 p.c tariff as of as we speak. The firm defined on Bluesky that it’s starting its tariff response with the “most reversible” adjustments, delisting and delaying merchandise, and that it’s going to keep away from elevating costs “till we now have last affirmation that there is no such thing as a various.”
Laptop 12 preorders open for consumers in Canada, Europe, Australia, and Taiwan as we speak at 1pm ET, and pricing might be introduced on the similar time.
