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do any of my followers own a framework laptop

do you like it

‪i can't bring myself to buy a new laptop with non-upgradeable storage and philosophically i like the idea of the framework but coming from an apple laptop i am surely going to be very disappointed in the build quality. maybe i should just get a thinkpad or something‬

@hikari I've never replaced a laptop due to storage space exhaustion, it's always been for a perf improvement (which is never upgradeable in laptops anyway) or because the old one is suffering some sort of failure

@saagar @rcombs the user can't, or the company can't?

@saagar @rcombs framework will happily sell you a new mainboard. are you expecting them to fail or are you expecting the mainboard cost to be high enough it makes more sense to sell the whole unit and buy a new laptop

@hikari huh, I didn't realize the mainboard was upgradable; remains to be seen how well that goes over time, though; I'll be impressed if a single layout ends up longer-lived than eg a CPU socket tends to be (i.e. just short enough for upgrades to rarely be worthwhile)

@hikari particularly given the timing with the windows PC market currently quite possibly at the cusp of its ARM moment; if they've managed to design a laptop chassis that can accommodate an end-user-performed upgrade across CPU architectures, I will be *incredibly* impressed

@rcombs they already launched both intel and amd versions of their product though i don't know off the top of my head if you can actually switch between them

@hikari @rcombs afaik, you can buy just an AMD mainboard (https://frame.work/products/mainboard-kit-amd-ryzen-7040-series) and then follow the guide they have published (https://guides.frame.work/Guide/AMD+Ryzen+7040+Series+Upgrade+Overview/205) to swap it in (including from an Intel board)

@hikari @rcombs Yes, you can freely switch between Intel and AMD mainboards for Framework laptops. The case is the same for each.