I prefer the off lease commercial thinkpads too, but I am glad someone is actually creating new stuff for that market. The used thinkpad market can’t grow.
To me the point of framework is that it can endure amateur repair rely well.
I have repaired a fair amount of device in my life, companies without a focus on repair will have fragile cabel and components. And everytime I open it up, there would be a high chance of me breaking something, forcing me to use a broken device.
Repair and cleaning will need to happen every two or three years for most electronics, and that usually means I will live with a corky device for the next two years, then produce a bunch of ewastes consists of mostly perfectly functioning device, except one critical component failure.
Not the screen, but it would be nice if I could replace the keyboard on my laptop, since it doesn’t work properly any more.
But since it’s built into the lower body, it costs about as much to replace as the device is worth, so I just make do with also carrying a Bluetooth keyboard.
Tip of the day: You can order replacement parts cheap from EBay or AliExpress and there are service manuals and instructions and even videos for plenty of common computers.
It may sound scary but it is really not that difficult. It’s mostly finding all the screws and knowing what order to pick everything apart and put it back again.
Me which is why I bought one, and several of the people who have seen me work with mine now want one for these reasons too. If my screen (or any component) craps out it is super easy to replace with minimal e-waste. Once I’m out of school and into the workforce I’m going to buy one of the GPUs probably a used one further reducing e-waste. If I want more storage space it takes like 5 minutes to swap a drive out. Love the thing
I think you’ve missed the point of framework laptops.
What other laptops can you change the gpu or screen on?
Screen changing is not a problem since eDP became the default. I swapped the panel on mine to a completely different one a few times already.
You can change the screen on my t480. Lots of things can be changed on it. It also cost less than $200.
I prefer the off lease commercial thinkpads too, but I am glad someone is actually creating new stuff for that market. The used thinkpad market can’t grow.
Great, now can you change the GPU? Add another usb-c port? Add a 3.5mm port?
OK, but how many people actually want to do that?
To me the point of framework is that it can endure amateur repair rely well.
I have repaired a fair amount of device in my life, companies without a focus on repair will have fragile cabel and components. And everytime I open it up, there would be a high chance of me breaking something, forcing me to use a broken device.
Repair and cleaning will need to happen every two or three years for most electronics, and that usually means I will live with a corky device for the next two years, then produce a bunch of ewastes consists of mostly perfectly functioning device, except one critical component failure.
People that are here.
Not the screen, but it would be nice if I could replace the keyboard on my laptop, since it doesn’t work properly any more.
But since it’s built into the lower body, it costs about as much to replace as the device is worth, so I just make do with also carrying a Bluetooth keyboard.
Tip of the day: You can order replacement parts cheap from EBay or AliExpress and there are service manuals and instructions and even videos for plenty of common computers.
It may sound scary but it is really not that difficult. It’s mostly finding all the screws and knowing what order to pick everything apart and put it back again.
Me which is why I bought one, and several of the people who have seen me work with mine now want one for these reasons too. If my screen (or any component) craps out it is super easy to replace with minimal e-waste. Once I’m out of school and into the workforce I’m going to buy one of the GPUs probably a used one further reducing e-waste. If I want more storage space it takes like 5 minutes to swap a drive out. Love the thing