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Are we at the point where buying and assembling a laptop, like building a desktop PC, can be done by any enthusiast?
by butz 3y ago
Are we at the point where buying and assembling a laptop, like building a desktop PC, can be done by any enthusiast?
- princevegeta89 3y agoIf anything I would suspect if it's anywhere near the complexity of assembling a PC. This laptop is designed to be no-more than a real-world drag and drop machine
- dheera 3y agoIf you buy all components from Frame.work, yes. Nobody else to my knowledge is making compatible components for their laptops though, so we're still a ways away from having an ecosystem of options like desktop PCs have. If you're not an EE, the only things you can buy 3rd party are RAM, SSD, and Wi-Fi modules. Which you can do the same for Thinkpads. That said -- I do appreciate that partial upgrades are possible with Frame.work. I own one and when I upgrade the motherboard, even though I can only buy a motherboard upgrade from them, I won't be upgrading the case, display, and other things that don't need upgrades.
- WWLink 3y agoTo date, framework's laptops are the only ones I've ever seen that were designed with replacing the motherboard as a possible upgrade path. There are a few Thinkpad series out there that by happy coincidence, you can swap parts and upgrade screens or maybe change to a newer generation's motherboard.. but generally that's more of a coincidence and not an intent. I'm glad framework is trying this out. I'm not surprised about the battery life, but pretty much anything not made by Apple will have that issue lol.
- Rediscover 3y agohttps://mntre.com/ https://mntre.com/ MNT Reform. Replaceable CPUs...