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What is awesome is that I can pick up one of these and put it in my existing Framework 13.


Yes! I don't currently have a Framework 13, but this is making it reeeallly hard to hold out any longer. Yes, upgrading parts instead of buying a whole new laptop is more economical, and more environmentally friendly, but I think the real killer feature is that it has the potential to democratize new ideas around computer architecture.

It sort of reminds me when you actually had a choice of whether you would set up a Token Ring or Ethernet network, before the option was taken away by the overwhelming ossification of existing hardware.


I've had three FW 13s (a first-gen for myself, a second-gen for my wife, and a third-gen for myself) and I suspect you will be pretty happy with it. What OS do you plan to run?


We're getting a factory seconds one for my son (he loves to tinker, so the fact that it'll need various upgrades is a feature, not a bug). If I were to get one for work, I'd likely start with Ubuntu, but I've really been looking for an excuse to run Nix for my main dev machine.




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