alt Hacker NewsThe framework model is the reasonable approach to people being finnicky about their laptop specs. You can't sustain "I want it just so" and "it needs to be a cnc-machined glued together brick, engineered to the last gramme" at the same time, without a step change in how we build hardware, but the framework comes pretty close
If linux power management got a bit better, and there was a good arm chip, it would be a great machine. Now it's just pretty good
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The power management is one of my biggest issues with my Framework 16 but I am hoping it gets better over time with newer linux releases as it has for other laptops I've had.
But the trackpad, the rigidity, the screen wobble, the battery life.
It’s annoying. I wish I could just buy a framework and stop this boring chore. But there’s nothing out there right now.
> If linux power management got a bit better
Honestly this is the thing that holds me back from using not a mac. My MacBook is always at the same battery level when I open it as it was when I closed it. My windows laptop regularly decides to do _something_ overnight and is dead when I try to use it, about once a week.