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What is your previous/other laptop brand? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by wordfool@alien.top to c/framework@hardware.watch

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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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[–] Arthur-SC@alien.top 1 points 11 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.