Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
23 days ago by Codemichael to c/framework
Lots of reviews out today, I’m sure you can find some more.
I mean, ok. Normally battery is much better on Linux though, or do you need a comparison to previous reviews that did it on Linux?
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.
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.
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/...
Beat me to it. I can't wait to get one!
@lemmy.ml
Related links:
- Framework website: https://frame.work/
- Official Framework Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer
Related communities:
- Buy it for life community: !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net
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Related links:
- Framework website: https://frame.work/
- Official Framework Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer
Related communities:
- Buy it for life community: !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net
- Fairphone community: !fairphone@lemmy.ml
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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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