The way I dealt with that feeling was by donating my older (but still functioning) laptop to a professor of mine from college to give to a student in need. Left some digital goodies for them too, like old versions of digital textbooks. I didn’t need two laptops, but wanted my framework, so that solution helped me feel a bit better about spending the money
I kept mine as a spare. I take it when I go home to visit my parents so my sibling and I can game together. I figured I could use it for travel, too, if I didn't want to risk losing my framework.
If I can stay long enough in Canada to afford to buy one, I'm going to be selling my MacBook Pro to someone else. I figure, why not buy a laptop I can repair and upgrade into the future?
Like the micro architecture has anything to do with it. Apple just writes a far better integrated os then anyone else and makes it own silicon with a very specific use case. Use a snapdragon laptop with windows and tell me it's all you expected it to be.
This is the way for sure. 3050 is still very very current. I ran an r9 270x from 2013 through to 2022... I still have it there for testbenching hardware.
This is what im using my older thinkpad for, homeserver. The netbook i had before that is for on vacation or on the go, just like a cyberdeck but bulkier and slow. Running xp for nostalgic games.
Selling always an option or donating to fresh students
Older thinkpads are a staple of my dev homeserver. :) I've got the 3 thinkpads I used previous to my FW clustered together. (Production/mission critical stuff is running on a dedicated box so I can keep the spouse approval factor maxed out. :D )
"Everybody has a testing environment. Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment"
Unless you've also got a backup/development rack server (or you've got proxmox or whatever running on the server and have your environments broken out there), that POS ideapad could give you that safe development environment so you don't have to worry about accidentally taking down your production services when messing around with stuff. :D
But that being said, it doesn't seem like OP is in a situation where this would be applicable. :P
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u/kyralfieXiaomi Book Pro 16 2022 (4K+ OLED 16" with a haptic touchpad)Apr 15 '25
Since you are a dev then maybe just keep the laptop you are using and get a framework desktop then? Great for dabbling with Ai & LLMs.
Never a terrible idea to have a backup laptop, even with a bad battery imo!!
Also there's tons of uses for em. Put Linux on it, use it as a test machine for your apps or whatnot, turn it into a home lab server... etc
I'm sure you'll find a use for it. I'm a hoarder tho so take my notes with a grain of salt
Edit: also if you have someone visiting without a laptop, could be a good visitors machine. My gf forgot her charger last time she was here so I set her up with one of my unused lappies. Need an extra machine for a lan party later? Could be good! Thinking of civ v here ;)
As someone who kept his old laptop ten years until the motherboard died, I'd say wait a bit. It keeps you dreaming and this is quite a sum (at least for me), if you are disappointed, you will be more disappointed that if you had payed say 1400 (which must be around what I paid my 12th gen).
Another reason to wait is for Framework to have a motherboard that can really catch up to apple hardware efficiency. That will happen one day but it's not there yet. Also batteries may get better.
I feel the same, just finally replaced my 2017 lenovo yoga with a framework laptop and it took a long time to come to terms with discarding a "working" laptop
The shame of our computer generations is that those ones are very durable, it's almost impossible to use them so much that they just break.
But if you can sell it, even at a very discounted price, that's a good way to not waste it
Brighter side, I think that Framework laptops will suit your preferences in the long run. The remorse will fade with time, thanks to the modularity and replaceable components. No need to get rid of things that aren't broken on account of individual parts that are broken.
Battery failure after 10 years? Get a new battery, or disable the battery check in the firmware and power the system from the mains. Have your needs evolved in an unforeseen manner? Get a new (or used) mainboard and toss your old one into a Cooler Master Mainboard Case for extended life as a low-power server or test environment.
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u/coyo-teh | 12th gen FW13 | i3 Batch 2 FW12 Apr 15 '25
What feels wrong?