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Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

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224 points cspags | 1 comments | 01 Dec 25 01:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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procaryote ◴[07 Dec 25 08:30 UTC] No.46180134[source]▶
The framework model is the reasonable approach to people being finnicky about their laptop specs. You can't sustain "I want it just so" and "it needs to be a cnc-machined glued together brick, engineered to the last gramme" at the same time, without a step change in how we build hardware, but the framework comes pretty close

If linux power management got a bit better, and there was a good arm chip, it would be a great machine. Now it's just pretty good

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bn-l ◴[07 Dec 25 18:06 UTC] No.46183652[source]▶
But the trackpad, the rigidity, the screen wobble, the battery life.

It’s annoying. I wish I could just buy a framework and stop this boring chore. But there’s nothing out there right now.

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1. mft_ ◴[07 Dec 25 21:18 UTC] No.46185252[source]▶
And, sadly, also the price. I’d also love to get one but when I last needed a new laptop it was about 60% more expensive than the similarly-spaced Zenbook OLED I bought instead.