Framework delays Laptop 12 orders in the US over tariffs

International buyers tin bid a Laptop 12 today, but US fans volition person to wait.

Framework has confirmed it volition nary longer beryllium opening US preorders for the caller Laptop 12 today, oregon announcing a price, arsenic it evaluates the interaction of Trump’s tariffs. The modular, convertible laptop volition inactive beryllium disposable aboriginal contiguous for buyers elsewhere, including Canada and Europe.

The Laptop 12 is Framework’s smallest laptop yet, and its archetypal convertible touchscreen model. It comes with a 13th Gen Intel Core i3 oregon i5 chip, a 1920×1200 touchscreen with stylus support, and up to 48GB of RAM and 2TB of storage. Like different Framework hardware, it’s modular and repairable. It besides ships successful a pastel pinkish and mint decorativeness that we’re beauteous fond of.

Although the institution hasn’t announced pricing, it pitched the 12-inch laptop arsenic an “entry-level” exemplary astatine a “lower cost” than the Laptop 13. That exemplary present starts astatine $899 for a DIY version, oregon $1,099 for a prebuilt one, aft the institution “paused” income connected immoderate of the cheaper Laptop 13 models successful the US to debar selling them astatine a nonaccomplishment aft factoring successful the caller tariffs.

Framework manufactures its products successful Taiwan, which is taxable to a 32 percent tariff arsenic of today. The institution explained connected Bluesky that it’s opening its tariff effect with the “most reversible” changes, delisting and delaying products, and that it volition debar raising prices “until we person last confirmation that determination is nary alternative.”

Laptop 12 preorders unfastened for buyers successful Canada, Europe, Australia, and Taiwan contiguous astatine 1pm ET, and pricing volition beryllium announced astatine the aforesaid time.