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It would be very wasteful to get rid of my current laptop to replace it with a Framework.
I got a Framework 13 that originally came with an 11th Gen Intel mainboard in it for free. It suffered a mainboard failure.
Swapped the mainboard with a Ryzen board, installed some used DDR5 from eBay and reused all of the other components. Now I have a Framework 13 for around $500 and it's likely the last laptop I'll ever need to own, if I can keep upgrading it every few years.
I bought one for myself, and a high spec one for my wife's business. Mine is just a personal machine but I've been using it as a portable home server in my various moves. Very happy with both. They didn't seem a crazy amount more than similar spec machines in Europe
They’re on my list the next time I need one.
Well, so far I've been fine with below €200 used ThinkPad. The gold standard of Linux computing.
On the other hand, I live in luxury with my eye-watering $400 refurb Thinkpad. Seriously, I can't even imagine spending more than a grand on a laptop.
let me guess: the devices live 2x as long but cost 3x as much?
It was like that with older models. Newer models make more sense economically.
Actually, excluding current craziness around ram/drives their prices were pretty comparable, at least to Dell when I checked last year.
They are just too expensive, and it's hard to justify that price when popular brand have models with good level of reparaibility. For example the new Lenovo T14 Gen 7 got a 10/10 on iFixit.
I'M nobody!!!!
