I get that the audience for this is different than the framework audience, but how could you possibly have that hardware? And software that it ships with and charge that much for it, that is the most wild thing i've heard this year so far.
The framework laptop itself is less than that, for way better specs. It's completely baffling like I just, I was thinking like it would probably be like eight hundred dollars.
The dual screen lenovo 9i ridiculous thing costs barely more than this does.
I get that the argument they try to make is "well, it costs more, because you'll just replace the parts, so you'll end up saving money in the long run."
firstly, the chipset is not very like time durable. In this case, it's already outdated. So soon enough, it's gonna be really outdated, and if you're only using it for troubleshooting and stuff like that then you're probably never gonna replace any of the parts anyway, because you're not going to be taxing it ever and you're not going to save a bunch of stuff on it.
And secondly, that argument basically just admits that the premium pricing on it is completely arbitrary, and it doesn't have to cost that much. It's just yeah, the team trying to make more money off of each one
But when your computer is this close to being one hundred percent diy, you just don't have the value proposition that framework has, and if people are just gonna buy open hardware parts.... you're just a reseller
So you're not really selling a computer and a bunch of modules, you're just selling a case and then a convenient way to bundle that at least the first time