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Well... As long as they don't fuck up the laptop(s) and continue to improve I can't complain if they want to make other stuff that is designed to be repairable, upgradable and expandable.

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>Today, Framework is the modular repairable laptop company. Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period. That’s one of the biggest reasons it just raised another $18 million in funding — it wants to expand beyond the laptop into “additional product categories.”

Well... As long as they don't fuck up the laptop(s) and continue to improve I can't complain if they want to make other stuff that is designed to be repairable, upgradable and expandable. Archive: https://archive.today/30zqs From the post: >>Today, Framework is the modular repairable laptop company. Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period. That’s one of the biggest reasons it just raised another $18 million in funding — it wants to expand beyond the laptop into “additional product categories.”

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Lexmark beat these people to market decades ago. Every single part can be found on their website. I am not sure if the tablets are "repairable" but I am sure those parts are there to.

EDIT: I might have a use for this product.

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I've not really had any love for lexmark and don't use basically anything they produce (as far as I know). Not sure why I would not know this if they were actually good.

Guess ill look into them.

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Looking more into Framework, their model is far more "modular" than Lexmark but I can order every part from the Lexmark website and build a complete system.

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I thought the main point was it being a framework for swapping different parts out. Repairability is a benefit of this structure.

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After five years building laptops, what might Framework add to the portfolio? Patel won’t say — I only get the barest hints, no matter how many different ways I ask.

You know they’re going to build a repairable Android phone. Even one that lets you replace the battery would be a rare gem. Murena is the only company I can think of that gives you that.

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Yeah, I had a old Samsung that still had a swappable battery. I used that thing for far longer than most people are willing to use a phone.

In a strange way I kind of get the not-user-replicable part for some things but for a fucking battery? Im also the type (and I did this when I was a 'starving college kid') that I would buy broken stuff on ebay and fix it myself to use or re-sell (only really to friends though and not for more than a little over the fix cost).

Sure, user serviceable parts make it harder to water-proof a phone.. But Im not a fucking moron and don't take my phone with me on the river/lake/etc. If I did, it would be in a water-proof floating case.

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What other products do you need to make big upgrades to like on a PC? (and runs an OS capable of supporting it)

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I guess it would be more on the "repairable" side. Not really needing to upgrade. It would be nice to have simple crap like a toaster that if a part stops working you can just replace it (easily). Most are impossible to fix and would just easily break again anyway.