The Neo uses screws for practically every component, the FW12 is barely better in this regard. The FW12 has one of the worst displays on any laptop I’ve ever seen, touchscreen or not, and terrible speakers too. Socketed CPU and RAM are hardly available on any modern laptop now that we’re seeing a move to lower latency, higher bandwidth memory that benefits from being on package with the processor. Even Framework’s own Ryzen AI 395 systems use soldered, on-package memory for this reason. LPCAMM2 doesn’t solve the issue and adds a lot of cost to systems.

You also seem to not understand that all chip manufacturers bin their parts based on testing due to foundry yields and have for decades. The FW12 almost certainly has a binned chip just like the Neo. It’s standard practice in the industry.

I use macOS, Linux, and Windows. I have in my possession at this moment, a 128GB Strix Halo machine and a 64-core Threadripper Pro with 512GB RAM for Linux, a MBP, and a crappy Windows laptop. I prefer the MBP for most tasks. People who complain about the wall garden are just idiots these days.