In principle I agree with you. But have you seen the state of the rest of the industry? Framework stands out as a bastion of repairability, the rest is mostly garbage.
I’d honestly expect a longer lifetime from a Macbook than almost anything else on the market at this point, especially if we are talking about high performance laptops for ”creative” work. You know, apart from an old Thinkpad, those machines are invincible.
“The rest of the industry” is an extremely large generalization. Some of them are nearly as bad, many of them are not.
No one else invents new screws to prevent access (except Nintendo). No one else puts in their contracts that their manufacturers can’t sell components to anyone else. No one else serializes components so that you can’t swap parts from a donor board. I could go on.
No one else invents new screws to prevent access (except Nintendo).
Like, on gamepads? I have multiple sets of security bits that I bought just to get required bits to open gamepads, and I’ve never owned a Nintendo gamepad.
In principle I agree with you. But have you seen the state of the rest of the industry? Framework stands out as a bastion of repairability, the rest is mostly garbage.
I’d honestly expect a longer lifetime from a Macbook than almost anything else on the market at this point, especially if we are talking about high performance laptops for ”creative” work. You know, apart from an old Thinkpad, those machines are invincible.
“The rest of the industry” is an extremely large generalization. Some of them are nearly as bad, many of them are not.
No one else invents new screws to prevent access (except Nintendo). No one else puts in their contracts that their manufacturers can’t sell components to anyone else. No one else serializes components so that you can’t swap parts from a donor board. I could go on.
Like, on gamepads? I have multiple sets of security bits that I bought just to get required bits to open gamepads, and I’ve never owned a Nintendo gamepad.
Security bits are in use all over the place. They sell them at harbor freight. Not really specialized.