I see a lot of anecdotal comments about users’ past or present Thinkpads on this sub so I’m curious how many FW13 buyers have come from a Thinkpad or have a Thinkpad as a second machine and how many have migrated from other brands.
I see the appeal of Framework for the old-school Thinkpad tinkerer. The FW13 will be the first non-Thinkpad I’ve owned since the old 570 back in the 1990s (although, granted, I’ve always been able to get EPP pricing on Thinkpads, which has influenced by purchases). My other laptop is a Gen4 Thinkpad P1, which is too big and power hungry to really be a good travel machine, but I will probably replace it with another powerful Thinkpad P-series laptop sometime in the next year for all the editing I do at home.
I’ve owned almost every laptop under the sun. Macbook Pro, Thinkpad, Dell XPS, Dell Precision, HP Envy, Razer, Clevo, etc…
I can’t wait for Framework to be more available so I can build a 16" tablet and use my split ergo keyboard with it. That being said, of all the laptops I’ve owned nothing has survived the amount of abuse my Thinkpads have. No they aren’t as repairable but they are built to last. Plus they keyboard is the only laptop keyboard I enjoy typing on.
yes, Thinkpads just seem so solid, even the more recent ones. The only thing I truly hate about them, build-wise, is that coating they use that’s a huge grease magnet. If the weather’s hot and/or you have sweaty hands a new Thinkpad will look like someone dumped a quart of motor oil over it within a few days! What’s more, the grease marks in well-handled areas can be impossible to fully get out eventually regardless of the cleaning products used. The older Thinkpads with the hard black plastic never suffered from this issue. I’m really looking forward to the bare aluminum of the FW13.