This looks great!
I’ve been using Linux on desktop for about 8 months now and I’m enjoying it a lot. I could see myself buying a Linux laptop with this battery life.
It’s super cool that you can just buy the parts and upgrade your old laptop with this!
Still about 500 euro more expensive than similar Slimbook but at least not 2x as expensive as it used to be. At this point paying more for upgradable laptop makes sense. I will definitely consider it when I need a new one.
I have Tuxedo laptop (they get them the same ODMs as Slimbook) and love it but if it ever drops on the floor with significant imparct I no longer have a laptop. All I could do is send it back for official repair to Germany and prey, while if I got Framework I could buy parts myself.
Totally but year or two ago you had to pay ~2.5k for a Framework and ~1.3k for a similar Slimbook. That meant that even if you dropped your Slimbook you could just buy a new one and it would still cost the same as the Framework. The selling point for Framework was that you could upgrade it but why spend more money to upgrade a laptop when you can just a Slimbook and buy completely new Slimbook couple years later for the price of one Framework? Now that the difference is about 500 euros it makes sense.
Because that’s wasteful
There’s limit to what I’m willing to pay extra to be more green.
In the long run it is also more expensive.
On Netflix 4k streaming for example, we’re getting over 20 hours of battery life
that’s pretty sick
I’ll probably breakdown and finally get one
800 pounds for 64gb ddr5, what a time to be alive. Could get something a bit cheaper but it’s still crazy prices.
Looks great, I was never a framework believer because it was so overpriced (to an extent it still is), but this sounds way better and might actually be a good deal. Aside from the specs bump, they fixed almost all of the issues with the older frameworks (CEO talks more about it in this video).
Better build quality and less flex, better screen, better speakers, and a better touchpad. The biggest issue I heard about it was that it felt a bit cheap and wobbly because of all the moving parts, but if they manage to fix that, I might actually get it some day.
It is expensive to “get in” but once you’re in you don’t have to buy a new laptop, you can just replace chassis/mainboards as you go.
Personally I have never had an issue with the build quality. I think that’s more of a reviewer gripe than a real world issue.
They occasionally have great sales too. I’ve seen prebuilds for $650 with previous gen boards. With the pro launch I wouldn’t be surprised to see prices for the older models drop over the next month or two.
Almost makes me regret having bought a maxed out version about a year ago. Just kidding, I’ll probably upgrade the trackpad, but apart from that it’s the best laptop I ever owned. Sad that you have to swap the whole input cover but it makes the swap easier, it’s just 5 screws.
I will buy that machine though when ARM takes off. Until that, battery improvements from introducing even lower power cores and bigger batteries does just seem like a quick fix to keep x86 alive.
With System76 and Framework (and Star Labs) I’ll never buy / use another Apple product again.
Did they say what is the battery life for AMD version? I see the 20h is for Intel.
I haven’t seen that yet
