I kind of want to call “waaaaah” on this take. One could certainly say it’s a great way for consumers to show their absolute contempt for the poor.

But chances are that someone that characterization would fit is someone who bought it because it was new and shiny. And the first ones are going to be expensive until we all figure out what we want and need from such a device.

And yeah, 3k is huge money. But as someone who is neurodivergent and writes music for a living, this seems like an amazing tool to help with focus, that interacts with an ecosystem I’m invested in.

Let’s object to wage inequality that makes these things unreachable rather than expecting them to come out with something that cannot possibly be sold cheaply and be as great as they likely imagine it is.

Think of it like this: hearing assistive devices are made tiny so that people can keep thinking they look cool. But no components that small can give a user the performance they ought to. Too small for good microphones, speakers and amps and feature-rich ultra-low-latency audio that sounds good. So you can have something tiny and limited or big and feature-rich.

I was just thinking of how great it would be to edit audio to picture in this, or to compose with it. Wondering if the forward-facing camera has a reasonable way to show the wearer’s hands on a keyboard other than “turning up the reality dial”, which is soon to be a commonly used phrase, I hope, especially pointed at execs in the business world but also at people who like to see things only the way they want.

I got downvoted in the other thread about this for saying such things. Too many people don't understand we don't have the power technology to power a true AR device without swapping out massive battery bricks.

$3,000 is an eye-watering price.

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I like the 3D projection system without wearing a weird glasses better. I mean the one in “extrapolation” is awesome.

Yeah, but at least you can replace those ports easily. Better than the original framework only having essentially three ports.

The difference is you can completely disassemble this laptop with nothing but a single screwdriver, everything can be replaced from the screen to the CPU (unfortunately you have to replace the whole main board, you can't just buy a new CPU unfortunately, stupid Intel and AMD won't let them I guess) to the heatsink and fan. Busted hinge? You can replace it. Need to clean it? Disassemble it and dust it and then put it back together. Easiest laptop to repaste, never go to repair shop ever again. Keep one laptop for the rest of your life, and upgrade it when you need to.

They already have a pretty good track record with the 13-in version, I have faith.

How? They literally have nothing in common. One is a modular laptop and one is a phone with artificial hype (nobody was talking about it before the tech channels.) Plus this is their 3rd year of existence, or at least their 3rd version.

On one hand I agree with you because you basically have only three ports left while plugged in, but the other hand you can actually replace the charging port. I can't think of a single laptop where you can do that. I don't know if they even have the legal rights to do a mag safe type charger, only Apple and Microsoft branded laptop seem to have that feature for some reason. But of course, the community has been trying to make one for a while.

The storage modules make sense because there's only one SSD port. Yeah, I wish that they had two as well. If nothing else, It makes a decent backup drive for all your files and stuff. I don't know how to do this on Windows, but on Linux it seems that by default USB drives aren't mounted until you try to actually use them, meaning that you don't have to worry about a ransomware attack locking you out of your backup files just because it's plugged in.

Now that the 16-in version exists and has six ports instead of four, as well as the option of sticking in a graphics card if you want it, I'm pretty happy with what they have now. A laptop that can be entirely disassembled with a single screwdriver that they package with it, where every component can be replaced from the charging port to the hinges to the heat sink and fan. You could keep this thing running for as long as you live, which in my opinion makes it the best laptop ever.

The draw has always been that if any component breaks, you can just replace it. Most laptops make you replace the whole screen assembly if the screen breaks. Here you can just buy the screen, or the fan and heatsink, or the hinge, or literally any component that breaks. And the whole thing can be disassembled by the screwdriver they package with it, no glued parts to pry apart. They aren't doing it to get rich, they're doing it to make a revolution. Oh yeah, and you can upgrade the CPU too.

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Says someone who obviously hasn’t had one.

They are not upgradable and they overheat if playing something too intense.

Lol. You have no clue obviously

Guess it was useless after they bought that huge trackpad 😂

Dell removed the nub 2 generations ago

They literally look identical now but with a red nub for Thinkpad and blue for latitude.

Well Thinkpads have their own design language and I think they look great!

It's a business laptop it's meant to be plain designed. That's why Thinkpads are always black with the red nub.

Dw he's just a walking L

Dude a switch? That's the worst possible solution.

The dock would help with cable management and declutter my desk which I use for both work and gaming. Having the ability to use multiple monitors easily with my desktop and work laptop is a plus.

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Not really as their not made for business and their cards are made for gaming not rendering.