The word "environmental protection" has been played by technology companies to a new height, reducing the amount not price reduction is called environmental protection, forced replacement is called "planned phase-out.
The little salamander does not know how much a charging head costs, but it knows how wasteful it is to change the basin because it is too stuck.
The speed of development of hardware is not consistent, part of the hardware performance can not keep up with the whole machine to follow the funeral is normal.
For manufacturers, this is to drive sales, but for users this is completely short shoes socks also follow the change - unnecessary.
Compared with cell phones, tablets, laptops such as what to buy to eliminate what kind of products, the ability to DIY, selective upgrade of the desktop is much more free.
Keeping up with the times without unnecessary waste, the modular is truly environmentally friendly.
The idea of cell phone modularity is still not the spectrum, but the do-it-yourself can assemble a laptop this way has been there.
Last February, an American company called Framework launched a different kind of notebook product.
It is not so much a notebook as an ecosystem, and most of its accessories can be easily and simply disassembled, replaced, and upgraded.
Memory, SSD, wireless network card, these ordinary notebooks can also be disassembled and upgraded needless to say, Framework notebooks even the motherboard CPU can be replaced by themselves.
Even the interface is customizable, USB-A, USB-C, video port, network port how you want to match how to match.
In the spirit of modularity, all parts of a Framework notebook can be purchased separately, from the screen and case to the hinge of the spindle.
Therefore, you have a total of three options.
Finished Product Framework Laptop
DIY kits that need to be assembled
Optional assembly from scratch
DIY kits are cheaper than the finished product to pick up about 200 knives, although part of the difference in price with or without a genuine system, but knowledge is wealth is still true.
The 12th generation Core DIY version is priced from $819 (RMB 5,515) to $3,047 (RMB 20,518).
Configuration from i5 to i7, memory/SSD from 0+0 to 64G+4TB, with or without WIFI 6E network card, with or without genuine system to choose from.
If completely loose match, it is cheaper or more expensive is too lazy to calculate.
But why does your Framework need to be a laptop?
In fact, Framework is no cheaper than a regular laptop, but when you figure out the cost of upgrading, the advantages of modularity come into play.
The 12th Gen Core motherboard kit will also be available separately, so if you had a Framework laptop, you can now get a "new" computer for just $449-$1049.
Do not forget to replace the old motherboard can also be used back to blood, and even junkies can wait for 13 generations out to pick up others to replace the 12 generations.
Because most other accessories are many years will not change the standard, so every few years to upgrade the motherboard CPU can be revived.
In any case, modularity is a more environmentally friendly and money-saving direction for users.
It also gives users more freedom of choice, unlike now, "This laptop doesn't have a Thunderbolt port, that screen doesn't work, another one comes with a crap SSD..."
Framework is not the first company to bring the freedom of DIY spirit to the notebook, domestic years ago you can see the Blue Sky, Micro Alliance mold quasi-system notebook.
They are red-hot in the circle with high performance and high cost performance, but still cannot be popularized due to the knowledge threshold, low versatility of complex mold structure, and after-sales trouble.
The difference with Framework is that one is the pursuit of performance and cost effectiveness, and the other is the pursuit of simplicity and freedom.
Of course they also have their own drawbacks, and have a common disadvantage: both pure white and do not want to use their brains hands, completely out of the audience.
But anyway, being able to choose, customize and even assemble your own laptop is an exciting thing for DIY players.
If Framework enters the country, the little salamander will certainly play with a whole, as for the quasi-system, youth has ended.
