alt Hacker NewsSure, but if you factor in the possibility of never having to do a full system upgrade again, and instead just upgrading individual parts (including the chassis) as needed, the long term cost of ownership would be way lower if you commit to framework
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obsidianbases1 • yesterday at 6:26 PM
Time value of money comes to mind for this, though
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IshKebab • yesterday at 8:28 PM
I don't think that is actually true - upgrading by selling your old laptop and buying a new one is still going to be cheaper than Framework's upgrades. I wish it wasn't but it is.
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Everything I've read about Frameworks quality control makes the above very doubtful.
If you watch the sales on other laptops you can easily get similar specs for half of what framework is charging. I have a 5070TI laptop I purchased for around 1200$ after a rebate.
Not only does the Framework 16 only offer the significantly weaker 5070 addon, it ends up totalling to about 2500$.
Maybe in 5 or 6 years Framework will sort out its QC and offer better GPUs, but it's not for me today.