Modular laptop concept

[Stephen Partington]

"I haven't yet tried it in an airplane seat. Driver's seat of a car was
annoying due to steering wheel, but passenger and back seats were fine."

those pesky steering wheels getting in the way of real work,

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 10:14 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Am 09. Jun, 2024 schwätzte Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss so:
>
> moin moin,
>
> > 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.
>
> How's the 16 for heft and mobility?
>
> I have the 13 and it's quite dainty. It's light and easy to use pretty
> well anywhere.
>
> I haven't yet tried it in an airplane seat. Driver's seat of a car was
> annoying due to steering wheel, but passenger and back seats were fine.
>
> It's also been fine for all the desktop stuff I've done on it. Haven't
> gone up over a few instances of Firefox running at the same time and have
> kept them all under 20 tabs, so it's been pretty light for browsing.
>
> I haven't yet started putting containers or databases on it, so haven't
> exercised it much that way either.
>
> > 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.
>
> Yeah, extra layer of protection.
>
> I just went for 4 USB C ports and the USB C hubs I always carry with me
> anyway. If the network port didn't stick out I'd get one of those.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> > On Sun, Jun 9, 2024, at 4:54 PM, Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 9:27 PM Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at 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.
> >>> >
> >>> > https://frame.work/
> >>> >
> >>> > Might look at one of these if/when they come about.
> >>> >
> >>> > -mb
> >>>
> >>> How time flies. Three years later and Framework Computer Inc still
> seems
> >>> to be going strong.
> >>
> >> 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 :)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Arun Khan
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Stephen
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