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Ben Brooks Framework 13 Review
Ben Brooks, on brooksreview.net:
The last time I was this happy with a laptop purchase was when I jumped from Dell to Apple, and purchased a 12″ Powerbook G4 — what a machine. The Framework 13 gives me those same feelings of being able to breathe again. I don’t feel constricted to only what I should be allowed to do, or unduly punished for selecting the wrong port setup, screen, RAM, or SSD (among many others).
So unless you cannot leave macOS, Framework should be at or near the top of your list when laptop shopping. I prefer it with Project Bluefin installed, but any flavor of Linux is so easy to use these days, that if you can assemble this machine you should have no issue running Linux either — as long as you are willing to put up with some software tradeoffs.
Great review. Even though the Framework 12 keeps taunting me, I’ve come to my senses and recognized that nothing but macOS1 would work for me. Still, I love that this exists. If Apple continues to loose its soul, it’s comfortable to know there’s an option.
Or an empowered iPadOS version.↩︎