Dave2d who’s been supportive of Framework preordered the Laptop 16.
He’s a bit concerned about the pricing and questions the upgradability of the Laptop 16 specifically.
Personally I understand his point, but I think the upgradability alone is probably not a good reason to buy the Laptop 16. It’s always been a package, which includes:
- repairability
- modularity
- support of the movement/mission
- the versatility of reusing parts for other use cases (e.g. the motherboard as thin-client)
- a laptop that actually does not have Linux as an afterthought
- the openness with the expansion card and (hopefully expansion bay) ecosystem
- and maybe even more?
It’s true that the laptop is expensive when you compare specs for specs but that was not the reason to buy it either. Do I wish it was cheaper? You bet. But like with all new startups, if it works out, if it scales, prices could come down. Long live Framework!
Yeah I think you summoned it up perfectly. Especially since for a lot of Games CPU isn’t that important. And people that do video editing might not need a GPU in a Laptop.