- Framework reviews are important to figure out the current generation. I tried one out and it had few issues other than me not having the time to tweak it how I wanted. Hardware was great, battery wasn't great at that time (needed simple software optimizations), but Framework now has larger batteries too that seem to have resolved that. The folks I know with them have mostly switched from Mac or X1 Carbons to Frameworks and quite happy with it.
- Specifically for travel, the recently announced Framework 12" looks really inviting if travel looks like the way to go.
To run an LLM on either, some amount of extra ram might help, depending on the model... if you want something heavier it might be cheaper to run a model privately in the cloud as needed, or use an eGPU and plug it in when you want. Local LLM use seems to be fun, but having something at home running it so it's accessible seems serviceable too.