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2026-04-22 19:18 UTC

Those nine months are a pretty consequential nine months for your point, though. How much would that laptop have cost today if released new? How much is repairability and build quality worth to you?

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@eldavi@lemmy.ml 2026-04-22 20:28

yes, they were consequential months and i disappointed myself just now because i had thought that i lucked out buying my laptop right before the AI RAM crunch hit; but i did an apples to apples comparison on laptops between framework 16 ai 7 350 based model and whatever laptop i could find with the same specs on amazon just now and found that the price delta is still roughly double. i can understand paying extra for a laptop since i’ve been doing that since 2014 with buying linux first laptops and i felt it was worth it because i was getting something out of the price delta with battery/power management that rivaled windows and support that rivaled macs; so i can also understand how anyone could feel like the framework price delta is worth it also if repairability or quality mattered to them. however the framework delta is so much larger than most of the linux first deltas so repairability and quality has to matter A LOT more than i’m understanding and that’s i why made my comment about the price keeping me away from framework.

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