This Is the Anti-MacBook, and I Love It.
But can it take on Apple?
A few weeks ago, I bought a 14-inch MacBook Pro. It’s a great laptop, and I have no regrets. It’s arguably one of the best laptops I’ve ever owned. But it does have a few downsides — one of which is the fact that it’s basically un-repairable, at least by me. If the RAM fails or if the SSD decides it doesn’t want to play nice anymore, I can’t fix it myself. And for a professional user, that’s a problem.
But there’s a newer kid on the block that’s taking the opposite approach. Instead of soldering everything to the board, their solution is to make everything — and I mean pretty much everything modular.
Enter the Framework laptop
In response to increasingly un-repairable laptops — even in the Windows laptop market — Framework aims to produce laptops that are designed to be repaired and upgraded at will.
Do you have an 11th Gen Intel CPU and want to upgrade to the 12th Gen Intel chip? You can do that.
Do you have an Intel i5 CPU and want an i7 CPU? You can easily pop in an upgrade.
How cool is that?
For IO, the Framework laptop uses four USB-C “Expansion Cards” that slot into the body of the machine. You can decide which IO options you’d like…
