A Gloriously Fixable Laptop
The Framework calls BS on years of terrible, wasteful computer design
Okay nerds: If you want to see the future of laptop design, check that video above.
It’s PCWorld’s teardown of the new Framework laptop. “Teardown” is actually an unfair word to use, because this laptop is designed to be easily — even sweetly — disassembled.
The laptop — Framework’s site is here — ships with its own screwdriver (!), straightforwardly encouraging you to open it up. Remove the back casing, and le voilà: You behold all the laptop’s components cleanly arranged and easy to pop out. Framework even labels each part (and its slot) with the component’s name and a QR code. This makes it almost unsettlingly easy to fix your laptop — or, better yet, to upgrade it. Three years from now, if you want a faster processor, better screen, better camera? Pop the old part out and slide a new one in.
For commercial products, it’s the closest thing I’ve seen to Bunnie Huang’s concept of an “heirloom laptop,” one that is so easy to fix and upgrade…
