It costs $999 and might be the best value Chromebook it’s possible for you to buy.
Chromebooks are cheap, basic, almost disposable computers that offload much of their work to the cloud.
TheFramework Laptop Chromebook Edition, or Framebook as we shall name it, is the opposite of disposable junk.
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If youre writing a document, its happening in Google Docs, in the cloud.
This reduces the needs of the machine because much of the heavy lifting is done on cloud servers.
The downside is it requires a constant internet connection to do anything, but thats about it.
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you could also customize them in a way thats just not possible with something like a MacBook.
Try that with a MacBook Pro.
If you dont like the HDMI port on the side, too bad because youre stuck with it.
However, the CPU swap isn’t currently available for the Chromebook version.
Who Is This For?
If youre not in the market for a Chromebook, then walk away now.
No matter how repairable and upgradeable this is, its not for you.
Most of a computers carbon emissions come from making it and delivering it to you.
Repairing and upgrading avoid that cost several times over.
