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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I’ve got a framework 13. It’s not better than a Macbook except in terms of user-serviceability.

    • It’s hot and loud (hopefully the AMD upgrade will fix this)
    • Battery life is atrocious (hoping AMD and battery upgrade will fix this)
    • Trackpad isn’t as good (piano hinge, and the coating has more friction.)
    • fewer ports(!) (limited to 4 expansion cards)
    • sleep is broken (modern standby, ugh. S3 exists on the 11th gen model but it’s no better than s2idle. I’ll have to see if the AMD one is any better)
    • Keyboard has bigger keys than I’d like, and while the key feel is pretty nice, it’s also heaver than any macbook I’ve used. Also, the layout is standard laptop garbage. The only reason the layout works on a macbook is because of macos’s shortcuts. On a PC I want a full PC keyboard like we had on 2011 ThinkPads.

    That said, I do really like the laptop. I just find myself reaching for my macbook especially due to the issue with battery life.







  • Anti-theft, which is a dual-edged sword.

    Activation lock prevents the device from functioning without the consent of the owner, but if the owner is locked out of their iCloud account, the device is a brick.

    Serializing components has the side effect of preventing activation locked devices from being harvested for parts. Unfortunately, this also means that perfectly working parts cannot be used to repair other iPhones.

    It’s very hard to walk that fine line between anti-theft and repair. The way Apple is doing it definitely seems to be with an anti-third-party-repair goal, though.

    I personally think activation lock is fine, but serializing components is not.