The Framework Laptop closed on top of a desk with a Verge-branded mug in the background.
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“My aged Dell XPS 15 has gotten sluggish. The battery dies very easily. It is heavy to cart all around, anyhow. Now that I’m going out in general public once again, I need a new function equipment.”

These had been the ideas circling my head at yesterday’s Framework event — the place the enterprise recognized for its conveniently-upgradable laptops declared new chips and a new, longer-lasting battery. “Battery life has continuously been the primary damaging for the Framework laptop,” reported CEO Nirav Patel, hitting on the a person motive I’d only ever admired the company’s laptops from a length. This morning, with out that one particular rationale to keep back, it was time to place down a $100 deposit for my have Framework Laptop 13.

But I did not — mainly because Framework would not sell me that battery unless of course I…

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