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@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 :)
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Arun Khan
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