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Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price (arstechnica.com)
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Lots of reviews out today, I’m sure you can find some more.

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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's 2026, you need to win the lottery to buy a laptop.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Brand new laptops are over-rated anyway. Esspecially on linux you can do 99% of normal use cases on an old second handaptop.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I won't deny that, I'm rocking a ThinkPad T from 2019 which I love. But I'm on the market for a new one just to get back some peace of mind as it may run out of life at this point, and it would be silly not to see the advantages of lunar lake and LPDDR5 for battery life. Only the price be damned.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not gonna lie that reasoning makes no sense to me, unless you have an actual problem with your current laptop I don't think "just in case my current laptop stops working" is much of a reason. Why not buy a new laptop when it actually runs out of life?

    Also second hand laptops are awesome. Save money, save the environment and there is hardly any difference between a laptop today and a laptop from 2 years ago. You could even get a faster laptop with the money you saved from going second hand.

    Anyway spend your money how you like, I have a bad habit of getting into an argument with everyone I talk to.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Not trying to convince anyone or to rationalize my own irrationality here but I'd rather have a working laptop to transfer from than a dead one, and with the fast increasing prices of components, the best time for a new laptop is either yesterday or after the AI bubble eventually pops and the market re-adjusts (I wouldn't bet the latter to take less than a couple years neither my current laptop to survive this long).

    Buying second hand also means passing on Panther Lake, and LPDDR5, so a fast laptop is one thing, but with the goal of keeping it 8 years or so like the current one, efficiency is as important if not more. Efficiency figures are quite striking (and in the 60%): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/framework-laptop-13-pro-review-much-better-battery-much-worse-price/

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    • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I stopped reading after they mentioned the battery performance was only measured on Windows. This is ridiculous to not measure it on Linux.

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    • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Beat me to it. I can't wait to get one!

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    The Frameworks represent the bleeding edge in my mind. The laptop I'd get if I was suddenly wealthy. This one looks cool. New RAM type sounds interesting. Anyone here had experience with it?

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Even just the chasis is super expensive. Hopefully it will get cheaper over time.

    I don't blame framework for the high price as I am sure they are getting hurt on sales and margin by the ram prices.

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