A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop? - Framework Laptop Review

Framework | Product Marketing Manager, Hardware Engineering Manager | Full-time | Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, but REMOTE first | link We're building people and planet-friendly consumer electronics products that are easy to upgrade, customize, and repair. Alongside that, we're creating an e-commerce marketplace for the ecosystems of products and parts we're enabling. Our first product is the Framework Laptop, a thin and light notebook designed to last (see coverage at Ars Technica [ link ] and Linus Tech Tips [ ▶ this video ]). We recently announced closing $18M in Series A funding led by Spark Capital to accelerate our roadmap. This of course requires continuing to build an amazing team. Some of the key roles we have open are: * Product Marketing Manager: link * Tier 3 Support Specialist: link * Hardware Engineering Manager: link * And more roles in Engineering, Operations, and Marketing: link

Framework | Product Marketing Manager, Full Stack Engineer, Hardware Engineering Manager | Full-time | Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, but REMOTE first | link We're building people and planet-friendly consumer electronics products that are easy to upgrade, customize, and repair. Alongside that, we're creating an e-commerce marketplace for the ecosystems of products and parts we're enabling. Our first product is the Framework Laptop, a thin and light notebook designed to last (see coverage at Ars Technica [ link ] and Linus Tech Tips [ ▶ this video ]). We recently (literally today) announced closing $18M in Series A funding to accelerate our roadmap. This of course requires continuing to build an amazing team. Some of the key roles we have open are: * Product Marketing Manager: link * Full Stack Engineer: link * Hardware Engineering Manager: link * And more roles in Engineering, Operations, and Marketing: link

Framework | Growth Manager, Full Stack Engineer, Firmware Engineer | Full-time | Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, but REMOTE ok | link We're building people and planet-friendly consumer electronics products that are designed to be upgradeable, customizable, and repairable. Along with that, we're creating an e-commerce marketplace for the ecosystems of products and parts we're enabling. Our first product is the recently-launched Framework Laptop, a thin and light notebook that is designed to last (see recent coverage at Ars Technica [ link ...] and Linus Tech Tips [ ▶ this video ]). Through the end of 2021, we're giving away a free Framework Laptop (i5-1135G7) to anyone who refers a candidate we end up hiring for one of our open positions! These include: * Growth Manager: link * Full Stack Engineer: link * Firmware Engineer: link * And more roles in Engineering, Operations, and Marketing: link

Framework | Product Marketing Manager, Frontend Engineer | Full-time | Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, but REMOTE ok | link We're building people and planet-friendly consumer electronics products that are designed to be upgradeable, customizable, and repairable. Along with that, we're creating an e-commerce marketplace for the ecosystems of products and parts we're enabling. Our first product is the recently-launched Framework Laptop, a thin and light notebook that is designed to last (see recent coverage at Ars Technica [ link ] and Linus Tech Tips [ ▶ this video ]). Through the end of 2021, we're giving away a free Framework Laptop (i5-1135G7) to anyone who refers a candidate we end up hiring for one of our open positions! These include: * Product Marketing Manager: link * Frontend Engineer: link * And more roles in Engineering, Operations, and Marketing: link

You will be very happy with this new laptop then: link Every internal component has a QR code sticker on it pointing to a web page with the specs, replacements, etc. See: ▶ this video

My personal laptop has been an Acer-C710 Chromebook for some time now. I bought it because it was inexpensive, upgradable, clearly could run linux, had an Intel (specifically non-ARM) CPU which meant that I could use nixos's binary cache for programs (non-ARM is probably somewhat less problematic today than it was in 2013). I went through several layers of rooting my Chromebook, eventually replacing the BIOS. I upgraded the RAM and (this year) replaced the HD with an SSD. But my laptop is getting old. The bezel is cracked and the screen cable seems ... ungrounded? Black isn't quite black. Still, I have been hesitant to upgrade to modern, non-upgradable laptops. But a few months ago Graham Christensen posted about running nixos on the frame.work < link >. And then this guy also seems pretty excited < ▶ this video >. Unlike the Acer Chromebook, the frame.work laptop is not cheap. However, I'm no longer a post-doc and I am in a fortunate position that I can afford to splurge a little. So, ignoring the sunken cost of my recent SDD purchase, I decided to go ahead an place an order back at the beginning of August. The cheaper processor I ordered was shipping in October, and here we are in October.

Framework | Product Marketing Manager, Frontend Engineer | Full-time | Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, but REMOTE ok | link We're building people and planet-friendly consumer electronics products that are designed to be upgradeable, customizable, and repairable. Along with that, we're creating an e-commerce marketplace for the ecosystems of products and parts we're enabling. Our first product is the recently-launched Framework Laptop, a thin and light notebook that is designed to last (see recent coverage at Ars Technica [ link ] and Linus Tech Tips [ ▶ this video ]). Through the end of 2021, we're giving away a free Framework Laptop (i5-1135G7) to anyone who refers a candidate we end up hiring for one of our open positions! These include: * Product Marketing Manager: link * Frontend Engineer: link * And more roles in Engineering, Operations, and Marketing: link

Framework | Growth Manager, Full Stack Engineer | Full-time | Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, but REMOTE ok | link We're building people and planet-friendly consumer electronics products that are designed to be upgradeable, customizable, and repairable by the end user. Along with that, we're creating an e-commerce marketplace to monetize the ecosystems of products and parts we're enabling. Our first product is the recently-launched Framework Laptop, a thin and light notebook that is designed to last (see recent coverage at Ars Technica [ link ] and Linus Tech Tips [ ▶ this video ]). Our team is made up of folks from previous successful consumer electronics startups, including the founding team of Oculus. We're early stage, but funded to deliver on our mission. We're hiring across a range of roles both around hardware development and on creation of our marketplace for repairable products and parts, including: * Growth Manager: link * Senior Full Stack Engineer: link * And more roles in Engineering, Operations, and Marketing: link

Same! The LTT review also mentioned the screen resolution as a problem, so that might be a nice upgrade in the future. FWIW, the rest of the review was really glowing. ▶ this video

this one looks terrific! I saw the review made by Linus : ▶ this video - totally got me convinced. I left Apple to System76 2 years ago, but that'd likely be my choice if I'd be doing this today...

Framework | Growth Manager, Full Stack Engineer | Full-time | Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, but REMOTE ok | link We're building people and planet-friendly consumer electronics products that are designed to be upgradeable, customizable, and repairable by the end user. Along with that, we're creating an e-commerce marketplace to monetize the ecosystems of products and parts we're enabling. Our first product is the recently-launched Framework Laptop, a thin and light notebook that is designed to last (see recent coverage at Ars Technica [ link ] and Linus Tech Tips [ ▶ this video ]). Our team is made up of folks from previous successful consumer electronics startups, including the founding team of Oculus. We're early stage, but funded to deliver on our mission. We're hiring across a range of roles both around hardware development and on creation of our marketplace for repairable products and parts, including: * Growth Manager: link * Senior Full Stack Engineer: link

> gluing everything together enables more compact, durable designs Maybe a tiiiiiiiny bit more compact, but definitely not more durable. Frame.work can apparently produce easily serviceable, rather thin designs of laptops that are even modular ▶ this video This is way thinner than my 2008 era HP and thinner than my 2021 era Lenovo. As far as phones go, the PCBs are a tiny part of the phone (The cpu, ram, storage combined are less than 1/2 of the phone surface area and probably less than 1/4 of the volume) so gluing them together doesn't even get you much. You might get a _small_ bit by soldering in the battery in the sense that you then don't need a "box" for the removable battery, but that is a small amount of space compared to the battery itself.