At least you can configure it not to have USB-A port. The other Linux-first manufacturers all think we’re in the time just when USB-C came out and all your devices where still USB-A, so a least include three USB-A ports!!!
Didn’t they already achieve that? What more could they possibly do?
Starting at $1,199, not including ram or storage
RAM and storage? In this economy?
A laptop review without a single word about battery life?
6th paragraph
Framework Computing is touting up to a 20 hour battery life with this laptop
because it’s only passable on linux.
According to the review at arstechnica it’s pretty good!
You can also swap it pretty easly, so you can carry an extra one
When I was looking at getting a nice laptop instead of my current high end desktop and cheap old laptop setup, I really considered a Framework. But honestly, Thinkpads are cheaper and just as repairable. Yeah, they don’t have the slide out port things, but they just have a lot of ports built in.
ThinkPad also has a nipple. After getting used to it I believe I will want it always.
My thinkpad only charges with usb-c, and it’s a loooot harder to resolder those on a thinkpad than hotswap them on the framework
That’s not everything that’s interchangeable.
Oh I know, but that’s the only thing that’s more replaceable on a framework than on most Thinkpads. Other than that they are both equally repair/replaceable.
Yeah, so far from what I’ve seen, buying into the framework ecosystem is only valuable if you will use the modular design to upgrade, for instance to upgrade your main processor or the screen, as new iterations arrive.
Also thinkpads are just way cheaper, you can get a used T14 for like $400 and pretty much any framework is at least like $800
Thinkpads are so cheap because a million companies buy thousands of them and sell them when they’re a few years old. Not the case with framework
My only question with the Framework laptop is still “Is it upgradable to have physical buttons on the touchpad yet?”
A nipple and buttons on the top of the touchpad is all I need from them
There’s a special place in hell for the person that started the trend of only having mouse button integrated into the touchpad.
Would be great. The touchpad is really not good enough to rely on precise clicks or gestures for second and third mouse button.
I don’t recall them really leaning into Linux so hard in their previous marketing but it’s all over now!
Michael needs an editor - lots of instances of the wrong word used, but it’s obvious what he meant so not the end of the world. Just kept jarring me out of focus on the review every time I hit one.
Wonderful day! Perhaps examples of the mistakes will help, and have you tried contacting the author directly, on the website itself, too? An editor, a colleague in a any team to stand together is always marvel, of course…
