Frame.work and Right To Repair.

[xegnma]

I've been thinking of getting a new machine and the new modular Frame.work laptop is pretty enticing. Holding off on purchasing for a bit though, but I love the "Right to Repair" philosophy driving its development.



Also seriously considering investing in the company after watching this vid:



Thoughts?

[PoV]

It's pretty great. I wish them the best.

The closest thing we used to have were ThinkPads. Right now I'm rocking a fleet of those (X220, X230, X230 Tablet, X270, T580), and I'm specifically `NOT` buying anything newer than an X270, T480/T580, since this was the last generation when they made their devices upgradable.

I also REQUIRE a trackpoint nub. I despise trackpads. So for now that means I'm exclusively Lenovo, but if Framework adds nubs, I'm in.

The thing about computers is as long as they support SATA-III (600 Mbit/sec) and USB 3.0 (600 Mbit/sec), they're often _good enough_. Machines first started getting these specs almost 10 years ago.

Here's how crazy I am about my ThinkPads: I made this spreadsheet detailing what features are available on different generations. I did this to figure out how old a machine you could reasonably buy and still get good performance.

Also seriously considering investing in the company after watching this vid

They're private, so best you can do is buy their products.

[Gered]

Similar idea for phones, I was considering importing a Fairphone 3+ because of the whole idea about them being mostly modular (they're only sold in Europe, but after some research it would work quite well for me here in Toronto on the carrier that I'm with). My original Google Pixel phone I bought in 2016 went kaput unfortunately this year, and I really didn't want to buy a new phone if I didn't have to, so I decided to try fixing my old Nexus 5 which I dropped in early 2016 and cracked the screen. Bought a replacement screen, but unfortunately, when I sat down to do the screen replacement I made a mistake during disassembly and broke something small and fiddly. The Nexus 5 was obviously not built with easy disassembly in mind at all. Ugh.

Anyway, yeah, the Framework laptop is definitely something I am interested in, but I too am also going to wait on it. I don't need new computer hardware at home for the moment anyway (still rocking 10 year old hardware that works wonderfully).