Probably will be an update and that's it. They are changing the looks but the OS "core" won't change

Do you use some weird cooling solutions? Drivers may be an issue. The other possibilities I can think of are hardware related.

Since no one asked... What are your use cases? Do you need a discrete GPU? Something lite? Something with lots of ports?

If you can afford it easily and used 500 bucks as a random number sure no problem, but othewise I don't think it a Framework is a good idea.

Yep but Qualcomm processors are produced by Intel. And it is pretty popular on mobile phones.