Framework, the company making an ever-wider range of modular, endlessly repairable machines is showing off its next big project. Today, it previewed the Laptop 12, an affordable 12.2-inch touchscreen convertible built with the same ethos as its bigger siblings. Laptop 12 is targeted as an entry-level machine for young people, students and folks on low incomes. But, rather than the usual compromises inherent in such a machine, it will be just as repairable, modular and crucially upgradeable as the rest of the Framework lineup.<br /> Framework<br /> “Few categories are as emblematic of the problems with consumer electronics as entry-level laptops,” explained founder Nirav Patel, “they tend to be janky, locked-down, disposable, underpowered and frankly, boring.” Laptop 12 [...]
Earlier this year, Framework announced it was making a smaller, 12-inch laptop and a beefy desktop to go alongside its 13- and 16-inch notebooks. A few months later, and the former has arrived, puttin [...]
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