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What do you think of framework and their methods? (frame.work)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Overall, they seem to be doing the right things for long-term ownership and repairability. As new hardware manufacturers, they're going to have a couple issues, just like their rechargeable bios battery design, but they've handled them well.

I would like them to open source their schematics, but they have contractual obligations preventing them from doing so, so making the schematics open after signing an NDA is a fair middle ground, and more than any other company will do. So kudos for that

I personally own a framework, and worked with them to fix a charging issue, and they did all the right things, professional, no issues at all.

One small issue that people seem to have, is their unwillingness to talk about core boot or libre boot, but that's a small thing.

They are a startup, so you always have to question what revenue streams they're envisioning long-term.

They're my kind of crazy: I hope they succeed, at least I hope they start industry trend for repairability and long-term ownership.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It would be amazing if they succeeded. Would be nice to be able to grab the motherboard of your old laptop and recycle it into a home server type device, sell your display to someone that can easily use it for personal projects, etc.

If they do it right their old boards could be used for the kind of stuff people buy raspberry pi's for as well.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is already being done right now.

You can fashion your old Mainboard into a home server. For example by using their case made in collaboration with I think CooperMaster but you can also 3D print it yourself.

The displays are just standard eDP connectors. So anyone could use that as well with a cheap board.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I saw hobbyists are doing it already, but it you could use mass produced cases to fit them in any form factor it opens up the possibility for long term use of motherboards that would end up scrapped otherwise.

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