I see a lot of anecdotal comments about users’ past or present Thinkpads on this sub so I’m curious how many FW13 buyers have come from a Thinkpad or have a Thinkpad as a second machine and how many have migrated from other brands.

I see the appeal of Framework for the old-school Thinkpad tinkerer. The FW13 will be the first non-Thinkpad I’ve owned since the old 570 back in the 1990s (although, granted, I’ve always been able to get EPP pricing on Thinkpads, which has influenced by purchases). My other laptop is a Gen4 Thinkpad P1, which is too big and power hungry to really be a good travel machine, but I will probably replace it with another powerful Thinkpad P-series laptop sometime in the next year for all the editing I do at home.

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  • AgNtr8@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Dell Inspirion 7577 w/ an i7-7700HQ and 1060 Max-Q, should be about 6+ years ago going from high school to college.

  • Arthur-SC@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Surface laptop 2, which is slowly dying. Mostly because of overheating and a very poor battery life. So my new laptop should have a replaceable battery. But i also like the customizability, mostly because of the amount of RAM i want. There are only a few laptops of this size with 64gb of ram. Also, the price isn’t any higher compared to other laptops where i live. It’s even cheaper than most other laptops if you buy your RAM and storage separately.

  • Link_0610@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a HP dB 1xxx laptop. R3500u, upgraded to 32gb RAM and 1tb storage. But today my fw13 AMD arrived. But the delivery came 15min after I left for my university so I have to wait till the evening…

  • Haaitje79@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My previous 3 laptops are Clevo barebones, build to specification by XNB Computers a small family company that work out of the Netherlands.

    I ordered a FW16 as a replacement. Mostly because my husband really wants to play with it, hardware. ^^

  • hydedan@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    MacBook Pro 2019 (intel, touch bar). It was between FW13 and new MBA but I got a crack in my MBP screen the day I got it 4 years ago, which taunts me every day… the ease of replacement on a FW was an easy selling point

  • you_are_breathing@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a bunch of other laptops; a 16" Asus gaming laptop; 14" Apple Macbook Pro; 14" LG laptop (my main laptop when I go mobile); and a Lenovo Thinkpad 480S.

    At this point, I’m thinking of replacing my LG laptop with my 13" Framework laptop.

  • madchemist09@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My last laptop was a comically oversized gaming laptop (acer predator helio 700). Had a slide keyboard and rgb up the wazoo. Big loud and almost 0 baterry life. The keyboard stopped working in one spot and the battery cant be replaced. Im sick of disposable laptops and want one that can be fixed, upgraded, and customized. Now with career, kids, etc wanted a much more professional laptop with mobility. With the amd igpu it will be able to some light gaming on the side. Fw13 amd was a dream come true. Guess i will repurpose the old laptop into a desktop for a family member.

    • dastultz@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Similar to me, a Digital Storm Nova 15" gaming laptop. Hideously loud and hot. Always mis-typing with the mechanical keyboard and trackpad that couldn’t filter palm touches while typing.

  • No-Farmer-2522@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I always used desktop pc. Framework is my first laptop and I’m really happy with it. I can open it up and upgrade it like my pc.

  • Medoc-@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a MacBook Pro late-2013. It runs correctly in 2023, but the battery doesn’t last a lot anymore, and the power cable broke… 85€ in an Apple Center, for a device that doesn’t receive Apple’s update anymore. 😑

    Except the battery and the power cable, everything is in perfect condition.

    I’m kind of fedup of not being able to easily replace the battery and having to buy an overpriced cable.

    So this is how I ended up on the Framework community. I’m in batch 9 of 13" AMD laptop, hope the promise will be kept. 🤞🤞🤞

  • Stolen_Recaros@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My previous laptop was/is an Acer Nitro 5 from I think 2018? It has an AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, AMD Radeon RX 560X, 16GB of ram, a 256GB SSD, and a 2TB HDD. Still moving things between them. The old Acer’s plastic chassis is literally held together with duct tape at this point.

  • aboukirev@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    HP Dev One. A very solid laptop. Built like a tank, great keyboard. A workhorse. FW13 is to play with and experiment.