Well, battery is cheap, but the logicboard is quite pricey… if we can’t service, then Apple should at least lower the prices of the repairs.
To your first point: Oh, yes they are. The tech industry is still very much like the railroad and steel industries, heck even the stock market, of the 1800s and early 1900s, where more or less you can get away with whatever you like since there aren't laws to prevent it.
I've seen plenty of these cheap replacements for failing batteries and can say at least the lifespan of those is nowhere near the original, which is of course more expensive (not only Apple, but everyone).
What’s fantastic about this machine is that they even intend for the CPU to be upgradeable through the mainboard. The problem I see popping up is one of price. It's obvious to anyone who's tried to configure and buy one of these that they sell components for near cost, with slim margins, but even with that, Intel's CPU's are expensive. When you're facing $400 to $500 for a new mainboard, you start to wonder whether you'd have been any worse off just selling your standard soldered ultrabook and buying a new model.
Well, let's go back to user replaceable tubes then. Pros/Cons have already been pointed out. And I still don't see the point.
Uhm, so Apple/Dell/Lenovo/etc. have upgradeable CPU as well, simply by replacing the mainboard?!?
I know you're just joking around, but come on! In theory, of course any laptop can be upgraded with a new mainboard, but in practice, you know that none of those companies will sell you one. Framework will. That's the difference. Being able to actually just buy the new component you need instead of having to sell the entire machine and buy a new one.
Well, that's not really true. Any service provider should be able to order these parts for you as replacement. If they sell it to you is another story, but I've seen sold mainboards and other replacement parts from Apple, Dell and Lenovo in the past.
Yup, there's no denying that. For example, I noticed that the machine comes with 3200MHz memory. The memory in my 2020 MacBook Pro 13" is 500MHz faster than that, and keep in mind that my machine is a generation old. The Tiger Lake ultrabooks out there are up to 4266MHz. Maybe Framework just couldn't source memory that fast and there's nothing more to it, but it's something that caught my eye.
They usually don't. That's what I meant.
Oh, that's interesting. I haven't heard anything about his past projects. What's up?
Actually that is coming
I don't know the specs but the battery is is taking up all the space so I don't think there's room for a larger battery.
It would be neat to be able to customize the silkscreening for your key caps though.
No question, but given that sort of thing is quite specialized and rare, I doubt it will a service. I think drop offers that or at least batches of various customized keys.
The usual, he always has an idea, is looking for someone supporting/financing that idea, brings people in who actually build it and then abandons the whole thing to move onto the next "big thing".
No rotary encoder? Pff... and they call it a modular laptop. This is a proper keyboard:
As others in this thread have pointed out, a tightly integrated machine will often be able to have a bigger battery, but that's because the entire system's tightly integrated. From my understanding, taking an otherwise modular laptop and making only the battery non-removable won't make it bigger.
