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From my perspective, besides modularity and repairability and all that, Framework succeeded in doing something that no other laptop manufacturer has succeeded a
by chias 4y ago
From my perspective, besides modularity and repairability and all that, Framework succeeded in doing something that no other laptop manufacturer has succeeded at: it has produced a laptop that fails to do anything that I hate.
Every other laptop manufacturer has something about it that drives me batty or that I just plain don't like:
* pg-up and pg-dn keys immediately to the right of the up arrow / immediately above left and right
* fn-left / fn-right doing something other than home and end
* fn key as the left-most key instead of ctrl
* webcam at the bottom of the screen
* is a mac
* keyboard is not backlit
* only has usb-c ports
* only has one usb-c port
* no headphone jack
* touchscreen monitor
* clips, or otherwise needlessly difficult to open
* 16:9 monitor (I didn't realize how much I hated these until I started using 3:2)
* difficult-to-replace battery
Each of these are small and seemingly insignificant things, but have a profound effect on how annoyed I am when while using the device. That last one is a huge win for me. You can brag all you want about your 16 hour battery runtime, that lasts for what, a month, maybe two? Then a year later you're down to 4 hours. And six months later you're down to an hour.
Somehow the Framework laptop is the only laptop on the market that fails to have any of my laptop pet peeves. This is the first laptop I've had in many years that I don't think "if only..." every time I use it. It's like they made this laptop specifically for me, and I love them for it.
- chias 4y agoIf I had to complain about something, the three things that I wish were different about are: 1. the red background behind the hardware switches on the "disconnected" side of the webcam and microphone (yes, it has a separate hardware switch for the microphone) is not particularly bright and can be difficult to see in dim light. 2. the rubber pads under the laptop aren't as frictiony as I would like, meaning that if you've got it on a tilted surface it may or may not stay put, depending on the angle. 3. the monitor hinges don't have as much friction as I would like, though I wonder if that's just mine. At some point I'll just buy a set of replacement hinges and see if that fixes the problem for me. Those are the only things I can think of to whine about.
- Doxin 4y agoI feel like having this: > At some point I'll just buy a set of replacement hinges be such a casual mention is the real point behind the framework laptop. No more tossing devices because some small-but-crucial part of them fails.