2025-08-07
Framework Desktop (2025) Review: Powerful, but perhaps not for everyone
The most obvious question is “Why?”
Framework builds modular, repairable laptops that anyone can take apart and put back together again. It’s a big deal in an era where laptops are regularly sold as a single unit that, should one part break, goes in the trash. Since every part of a Framework machine can be swapped out, you can keep one going for as long as your patience, and the supply of spare parts, allows. Desktops, however, are already modular and repairable — company founder Nirav Patel
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Framework updates its 13-inch laptop with AMD’s Ryzen 300 AI series chips
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Private Internet Access VPN review: Both more and less than a budget VPN
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Microsoft retires AutoGen and debuts Agent Framework to unify and govern enterprise AI agents
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