Framework has revised Laptop 13 Pro pricing for pre-orders for the second time this year, cutting costs after securing a new batch of LPCAMM2 memory at a lower price. The update, posted to the company’s RAMpocalypse tracker and updater page, arrives two months after Framework raised Laptop 13 Pro pricing in July, despite having told buyers beforehand that the announced pre-order figures would hold for the duration of the pre-order window.
How the new Laptop 13 Pro pricing compares
The new pricing sits between the two previous figures. It is not as low as the original pre-order cost announced before July, but it is lower than the price buyers have been quoted since the July increase. Framework says the reduction is possible because it locked in a fresh supply of LPCAMM2 modules, the compact memory format used across the Laptop 13 Pro range, at a lower cost than the batch that forced the July increase in the first place.
Framework is applying the change retroactively rather than only to orders placed from now on. Buyers who pre-ordered at the higher July pricing will see that price adjusted down automatically. TechPowerUp reports that customers whose Laptop 13 Pro units have already shipped at the higher price are getting partial refunds, rather than being told the lower price only applies to future orders. Framework has not said how quickly those refunds will be processed.
A pricier Core Ultra X9 option
The same update covers the Intel Core Ultra X9 configuration of the Laptop 13 Pro, and there the news runs the other way: that CPU option now costs more than it did before. Framework has not published a breakdown of why memory and processor pricing moved in opposite directions inside the same update, but the timing lines up with broader pressure on component costs.
Intel has signalled another CPU price increase across its own lineup for October, and DRAM supply has been tight for most of the year. A buyer configuring a Core Ultra X9 unit today is trading a cheaper memory line item for a pricier processor one, and the net saving depends entirely on which configuration they pick, since the two changes will not land on every unit the same way.
Framework’s second pricing wobble this year
This is the second time in as many months that teqpost has covered Framework adjusting a product after launch rather than at it. In August, the company switched the Laptop 12 to Intel’s Wildcat Lake platform ahead of an October ship date, after the original chip plan for that machine did not hold up. Taken together, the two updates point to a company whose component sourcing, on memory and on silicon, keeps shifting under products that have already gone on sale, with buyers who ordered in good faith absorbing the swings in both directions.
What to watch now is whether the promised refunds actually land for units that have already shipped, and whether this pricing holds without a third reversal. Framework has committed to posting any further changes to its public tracker page, so that page, not the original pre-order announcement, is the one to check before treating current figures as final.
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