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Indeed! I was not aware of that as I have the 16, which doesn't feature it.

Community forum posts from 2021 suggest they sort of forgot to include this information initially.

It so happens that the audio jack in my previous laptop started getting loose after four years, which was a first, as usually it was the USB ports which would go, so having it as an expansion card was a major selling point for me.

This really is a device for people who tend to break things despite relatively light usage. I for one damaged the screen in every single laptop that I had.






As I said, I never saw the FW16 except in pictures and everything I know about it was from the net. I might be wrong about some of the things I wrote.

So, does it really have a headphones jack or not?

My X60T headphones jack only recently started to cause troubles after many many years of use, but it was an easy fix: drill 3 tiny holes in the connector casing and push a needle through each one to bend the contacts tighter.


The F13 has it, the FW16 does not.

Anyway, I'd rather just disassemble the expansion card and solder in a new port should this ever come to pass, as it's just a question of undoing two screws:

https://community.frame.work/t/whats-inside-the-audio-expans...


I don't know about the 16, but my 13 definitely does have one.



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