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Re:The Framework Laptop Could Revolutionize Repairability. W... by heavyset_go on Thursday October 14, 2021 @07:03PM (#28871387)
> After 6 years, my old laptop starting having other issues with the screen, and ssd. Everything about the laptop was out of date, low resolution screen, comparatively slow processor, bad webcam, not a lot of memory, keyboard started having issues. So it make sense to buy a new laptop.

These are all things you can upgrade or replace as time goes on, instead of waiting 6 years or less to replace them all.

Right now, if you want to upgrade even just the memory in many laptops, you need to buy a whole separate machine to do so. I have a laptop that's about 6 years old. A couple of years after first buying it, I would have benefited from a RAM upgrade and not much else. I didn't do the upgrade because I didn't want to buy another machine just for more memory. I would have had a better experience during those 6 years if I had a Framework laptop that I could upgrade the memory in after only 2 years.

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Re:The Framework Laptop Could Revolutionize Repairability. W... by dfdz on Thursday October 14, 2021 @07:11PM (#28871462)
That is a good point, which I did not think about.

I definitely could believe that the life span of a Framework laptop could be slightly longer (say 8-9 years) and that adding some incremental upgrades could make it a better overall experience

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