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steepdawn974 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm curious: did you consider using used ThinkPads? Afaik you can also pretty much replace all important parts, and works great with Linux.

(and >50% cheaper)
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Jesse | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I prefer the Framework, for me build quality, screen, and repairability are a lot better
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Egge | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I did, but the idea that the Logic Board can be replaced once you want to upgrade and that the old one can be run as better RPi made me go for the framework.
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steepdawn974 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Logic Board = mainboard, right?

I like the concept, and those plug&play expansion cards looks also neat. So far I have been always pimping old laptops (which I have plenty; my 10+ year old Acer i5, 16GB RAM is running a perfectly fine Start9OS with bitcoincore, monero, Liquid & CLN nodes on a 4GB SSD) but yeah eventually you run out of options once you hit the CPU or motherboard-RAM limits.

Thanks for sharing. Had never heard of https://frame.work before