System76 or Framework laptop?

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Look, we know System76 laptops are based as fuck. I mean, Coreboot, Open source firmware, PopOS, and a fucking open source mobo in the works, just so fucking based.

But man, these framework laptops look cool too. Completely modular and easy to work on. Looks like the company has proved it isn't going to go under anytime soon.

I'm debating what to get once I feel like upgrading from the trusty ol ThinkPad. What would you buy?

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ever seen a laptop with micro-sd, full-size display port, full-size hdmi and a usb-c, that is also repairable and at least committed to making their mainboards compatible with core/libreboot?

well great, cause i haven't

The user lacked courage... Courage to put 6 3.5mm audio jacks on a laptop, never before seen

I have seen plenty of laptops with that many ports. A laptop I had back in the day had a full sized HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, micro-sd and several USB ports, and it was the same size as the framework.

The framework 13 would be a better laptop if they just included all the ports instead of making it modular. They could have done that.

A laptop I had back in the day

Great! Can you buy a replacement motherboard to upgrade it to current-gen Intel or AMD? Laptops with that many ports are a rarity now. If you want to dispute my claim you can send me the model number of a sort-of recent laptop with

  • 2-4x thunderbolt usb-c
  • full size HDMI
  • full size display port
  • a micro-sd card slot
  • a full size SD card slot (not yet released)
  • 2.5 GbE
  • at least 1 audio jack, 2 would be nice if your friend also wants to listen or whatever
  • LTE modem (not yet released)
  • a couple of usb-a 3.0 ports
  • rs232 would also be nice

...you get the point.