Respect for using it until it falls apart. I think a repairable laptop is a noble ideal, but I wonder if framework ones are actually that much more repairable than a regular laptop that you can open up. I’m not that familiar with their stuff so maybe you know more. Ie. With a standard laptop you can open, you can take out and replace the ram, storage, battery, keyboard, etc. Depending on how integrated the Mobo is, you might be able to replace the ports separately too.
Can you replace the CPU/GPU on the framework?
An Apple laptop doesn’t have replaceable RAM or storage because they want to upcharge on those items.
The average laptop is okay, but ports are soldered. Framework ports are all USB C internally so you actualy customize what you want and they can be plugged and unplugged
Screens are often glued on as well. But the killer feature is upgradable mobo and GPU. Nobody has supported a new generation of GPUs, if they come out with RDNA 4 upgrade for the current gen that will be a first in decades.
They already succeeded with a mobo upgrade so you could have bought an 11th gen Intel and changed to AMD or 13th gen
Respect for using it until it falls apart. I think a repairable laptop is a noble ideal, but I wonder if framework ones are actually that much more repairable than a regular laptop that you can open up. I’m not that familiar with their stuff so maybe you know more. Ie. With a standard laptop you can open, you can take out and replace the ram, storage, battery, keyboard, etc. Depending on how integrated the Mobo is, you might be able to replace the ports separately too. Can you replace the CPU/GPU on the framework?
An Apple laptop doesn’t have replaceable RAM or storage because they want to upcharge on those items.
The average laptop is okay, but ports are soldered. Framework ports are all USB C internally so you actualy customize what you want and they can be plugged and unplugged
Screens are often glued on as well. But the killer feature is upgradable mobo and GPU. Nobody has supported a new generation of GPUs, if they come out with RDNA 4 upgrade for the current gen that will be a first in decades.
They already succeeded with a mobo upgrade so you could have bought an 11th gen Intel and changed to AMD or 13th gen