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Now pretend you can't get the student discount and actually want the extended warranty/applecare and compare the final result. Now pretend you want to bump up

Now pretend you can't get the student discount and actually want the extended warranty/applecare and compare the final result. Now pretend you want to bump up to 16gb of ram so you can run a VM.

Aurornis 4mo ago
> Now pretend you can't get the student discount Okay it's $599 vs $799 now. 33% premium. > and actually want the extended warranty/applecare The Framework warranty is only 1 year, same as the MacBook Neo. If you add AppleCare+ to the MacBook Neo you could get a 3-year warranty laptop for $739 that performs better than the $799 Framework 12 > Now pretend you want to bump up to 16gb of ram so you can run a VM. I don't think the students shopping for a MacBook Neo are going to be heavy VM users on their little laptop, but if I do this on their website the price bumps to $1049 $1049 is within $50 of a MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and much better CPU, display, build quality, and battery life. So I still don't see the value, sorry.
- tracker1 4mo ago
  But bumping to 16gb ram means buying new hardware, moving over your profile/configuration and then trying to sell your old hardware, losing money on the trade... vs just upgrading the ram. I'm not saying don't buy a Neo... I'm just saying there are objective reasons why you might not want to... for me, it's that I would prefer to run a Linux distro on whatever I buy. I might just go for a Lenovo IdeaPad and save a little over the Framework and the Neo at that point... they aren't the only two options on the market.