My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the cheapest option and the best value... but it seems like that's squarely where the Neo landed for the good-but-cheap laptop category. My nephew is also my godson, and to kick off his computing journey, I thought I'd let him choose from a Framework 12 I bought to test, or the MacBook Neo I bought a couple months ago to use around the studio.
  • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    The way I justified it was by saying that it will last longer than a laptop I just throw away after 5 years. If I can keep it for 10 years with an upgrade ir two the economics starts to make sense.

    • discocactus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Yeah but I have MacBooks from the early 2000s that still work ok, and 2010s that work well enough I use them every day (as a tv/sound system)

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    I got a free, second hand Framework 13. It had a dead motherboard, but was in excellent shape otherwise. I bought a newer gen motherboard and some second hand RAM to move from DDR4 to 5. Kept everything else.

    Works great. Only paid ~$500 for parts.

  • jimerson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    I’ve had mine for about 6 months and absolutely love it. Paid a little extra, sure, but it fit with my values (better than most) and exact hardware specifications for its use-case.