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[–] BURN 8 points 1 year ago (17 children)

At that price I’d honestly just get a MacBook. I know there’s a lot of Apple hate here, but they make phenomenal laptops.

I probably also wouldn’t ever upgrade my laptop, so framework probably isn’t for me anyways.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Definitely not worth buying if you're not planning on upgrading it in the future. The point of framework is the customizability and future-proofing, otherwise it's pretty expensive compared to similar spec-d laptops.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The point of this machine is to be repairable, not cheap. It allows you to keep the same machine for longer and reduce your e-waste in the long term.

EDIT: and yes, if you're not interested in repairability then it's not really worth it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

According to configurator, for 2000$ you get a Linux capable laptop with 32 Gb RAM, 2Tb SAD, and one of the top CPUs on the market. It’s definitely not price that MacBooks compete with this on, as anything comparable starts at 500$ more.

M1 versions do compete on price, but there’s a whole other set of trade offs there.

[–] iopq 18 points 1 year ago

Enjoy your soldered storage. If it breaks you have to pay out the nose to replace an SSD, the easiest of upgrades/repairs

[–] InvaderDJ 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can’t boot Windows or Linux natively on a MacBook, so that would be another reason to not go for it (if you care about that).

But yeah, this machine is definitely not for people who don’t want to upgrade or modify their device.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] InvaderDJ 8 points 1 year ago

It is, but I don’t think it’s developed enough to be considered ready IMO.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It is for different people.

[–] raffomania 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you’d buy a new laptop, you could upgrade the old one instead

[–] BURN 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could, but by the time I need a new laptop (last one I bought was 2017) the chassis and screen end up beat to shit and need to be replaced anyways.

I also just have no use for upgrades in my laptops. They’re always single purpose machines and I replace them when they break, not when they get slow.

I have a desktop that keeps up with modern hardware. Never got the need for the same in my laptop

[–] a_spooky_specter 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No Linux on new MacBooks from what I understand.

[–] BURN -2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I prefer macOS over Linux for laptops

[–] Hazdaz 8 points 1 year ago

Great, then I'd have no software to run.

[–] cybersandwich 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People also sleep on the unified memory of apple silicon. If you get 16gb your GPU can use it. Your cou can use it. Your ML cores can use it.

I can run some large ai models on my air just because of the unified memory. And the ML cores are insanely fast.

My m1 Mac air was the first apple product Ive owned and I have to say, I've never had a better laptop. It's so well built, everything works with no driver issues, and iterm2 is one of the best terminal emulators out there.

[–] whatsarefoogee 11 points 1 year ago

It's so well built, everything works with no driver issues

You might run into a lot of driver issues if you try to run anything besides MacOS.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have been daily driving an apple silicon macbook pro for over a year. Honestly couldn't see myself going back and I only use my PC for gaming now.

Still some small annoyances, but the battery life...

I am glad framework exists though. It would be the top of my list if I needed a windows laptop for sure.

[–] a_spooky_specter 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No Linux on new MacBooks from what I understand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Linux is available for m1 and newer machines but your point stands.

[–] MossBear 1 points 1 year ago

I used nothing but Apple computers from the early 80's right until around the time that Steve Jobs died. I really liked what they were back then. Snow Leopard was an amazing OS. I've found that the spirit of what I liked about those earlier Apple computers is more present in Linux than in modern Apple computers these days.

I know there's been some success with running Linux on Apple hardware, but even so, I'd favor buying into a positive philosophy of how a business should be run and how products should be made just as much as the quality of the hardware. And in the case of Framework, it doesn't appear they're making remotely bad hardware.

[–] MossBear 1 points 1 year ago

I used nothing but Apple computers from the early 80's right until around the time that Steve Jobs died. I really liked what they were back then. Snow Leopard was an amazing OS. I've found that the spirit of what I liked about those earlier Apple computers is more present in Linux than in modern Apple computers these days.

I know there's been some success with running Linux on Apple hardware, but even so, I'd favor buying into a positive philosophy of how a business should be run and how products should be made just as much as the quality of the hardware. And in the case of Framework, it doesn't appear they're making remotely bad hardware.