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I'm also a bit doubtful about the utility of replacing the motherboard. When I buy a laptop, I'm aiming to get 5-10 years out of it, and the laptops case will a
by sva_ 3y ago
I'm also a bit doubtful about the utility of replacing the motherboard. When I buy a laptop, I'm aiming to get 5-10 years out of it, and the laptops case will at that point be pretty worn so that I'd want to replace it.
- anotherhue 3y agoThey'll sell you a new case too. Once you've swapped out all the parts you'll have a real nice upgrade. I have the 13 and it's almost perfect so take this in good humour.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoI'm hoping that my next laptop will be a Framework 16, and I expect/hope for it to be a Ship of Theseus. In the past when I've replaced laptops, it was usually because I wanted to update just one or two components. Retiring the entire laptop always felt so wasteful. So the piecemeal upgrade process to which Framework aspires would be perfect for me. (Also, being able to cheaply experiment with and replace component choices, e.g. keyboards, is a big selling point for me. My last laptop probably would have been from System76, but I really didn't like their choice of keycaps.)
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>Retiring the entire laptop always felt so wasteful. It's only wasteful if you throw it in the trash. If you sell it on the used market, someone else gets to use it for longer, and so on.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoIt must really vary by person or environment; the only reason I'm not still daily driving my x200 ThinkPad from 2008 is that it's just too slow.