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Be careful what people will write here. A lot will have buyer bias because they want to justify their purchase.
That's an interesting point. I've often heard the inverse: to beware of reviews from those who receive items for free, as few products are bad propositions when there is no associated cost.
I don't know how long this one will last me, but I will try to keep it alive with spare parts for as long as possible. Repairing things, especially if they are treasured things, feels good. There was no need for any repairs yet, but I expect it to happen eventually. Or maybe I just want to upgrade things at some point.
I love the idea of it but am meh on it after 2.5 years. Good Linux support though.
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I love mine too (have owned every 13" they have made either personally or at work, plus the new 16"). Having the actual usb recessed and having a sacrificial usb-c as the one you use has saved taken me from breaking usb-c ports at roughly one a year to zero. The upgradeability and serviceability is real as well. That beings said, my complaints about them are: They are a few hundred dollars more expensive than compara…
Tbh it probably is cheaper for them to test that it powers up ... There would be nothing worse than building a laptop to find it was an RMA deal.... I would expect that the social media backlash could kill the product...
Be careful what people will write here. A lot will have buyer bias because they want to justify their purchase.
That's an interesting point. I've often heard the inverse: to beware of reviews from those who receive items for free, as few products are bad propositions when there is no associated cost.
I guess the point is I don't know which if the two above is correct. I know sometimes I have biases that even I'm not aware of though...
I have one, still my main laptop and I don't see a reason to change that. Battery life is better than any other laptop I've had, though that may say more about my other laptops than the Framework. Biggest gripe: no touchscreen and, despite open specs, still no aftermarket touchscreen several years later.
> Battery life is better than any other laptop I've had 3-4 hours like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42564335 ?
The "repairability" doesn't really matter much when it doesn't break. Any CPU from the last 10 years should be good enough for me to just be coding in vim. Perhaps faster compilation speed for Rust but I mostly write Go anyways.
I'm hoping new parts will still be supported/available in 10 years when I'll actually consider upgrading anything.
The best thing about it is Linux support. I have friends who regularly get driver issues or whatever on other systems but that's never been a problem for me
I've loved mine. Some issues with the heat management and fans--but that's also been a Linux/laptop thing--fresh thermal paste, a new (warranted!) fan replacement part, and finally figuring out best drivers setup have brought it roughly in line with a Dell or whatever. Really enjoyed when I recently upgraded the memory on my tower last year, and threw the old ones on the Framework and it worked great. The expansion s…
> but that's also been a Linux/laptop thing--fresh thermal paste, a new (warranted!) fan replacement part, Is there a (video-)guide on how to do that? Why was the fan replacement warranted?
I bought mine in September. Overall, a big disappointment, the battery is less than mediocre (under linux). Unfortunately I missed the refund window. I bought it after using a mac m1, so i was somehow under impression that i am buying a laptop to be used during a train ride, or watching a movie in a bed. It's none of that, i bought another "movable desktop pc". Everything else is OK.
> or watching a movie in a bed The battery doesn't last the length of a movie? Are you getting hardware decoding of the video?
I used a Framework 13" as my daily driver for 3 years. I still have it, and now I also have a Framework 16", which has been my daily driver for the last six months. The user serviceability and upgrade stories are real. The hardware isn't as svelte as Apple's, but mine has traveled all over the world and has yet to have any major issues. The one hardware failure I had was that the USB-C half of the charging cable on m…
I love mine too (have owned every 13" they have made either personally or at work, plus the new 16"). Having the actual usb recessed and having a sacrificial usb-c as the one you use has saved taken me from breaking usb-c ports at roughly one a year to zero. The upgradeability and serviceability is real as well. That beings said, my complaints about them are: They are a few hundred dollars more expensive than compara…