I have several Framework (both AMD and Intel) laptops including the Framework 16 and they're great. Yeah there's some small fit an finish issues that some have pointed out but IMO is an acceptable tradeoff for being repairable and upgradable.
If anything, the ability to change out the ports is great. Imagine the situation where you're sitting at a table, plugged in, and someone comes by and kicks your power cable ripping it out of the computer. In a lot of cases with other laptops, you're now going to have to replace that port as it's going to at the very least break the solder joints; and you're not going to be able to replace just that port as it's soldered to the motherboard. Now you have a $500+ repair minimum to replace the motherboard in your laptop.
With the Framework, you likely just damaged the $10 expansion card. So you pull it out, replace it with another one, and move on with your day.
On Sun, Jun 9, 2024, at 4:54 PM, Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 9:27 PM Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> On 2021-02-27 00:03, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> > This actually looks rather cool, thought I'd share with fellow geeks.
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>> > https://frame.work/
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>> > Might look at one of these if/when they come about.
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>> > -mb
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>> How time flies. Three years later and Framework Computer Inc still seems
>> to be going strong.
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> A friend of mine has bought it and swears by the hardware flexibility (mix and match).
> I am contemplating it for my next laptop, although my 6-year-old Thinkpad is still going strong :)
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