Has anyone bought some of the components (e.g. a hard drive or RAM) somewhere else instead of buying the full laptop from the frame.work website?
Was is worth it?
Looks like an easy possibility to save a few hundred dollars/euros…
Just curious…
Has anyone bought some of the components (e.g. a hard drive or RAM) somewhere else instead of buying the full laptop from the frame.work website?
Was is worth it?
Looks like an easy possibility to save a few hundred dollars/euros…
Just curious…
You could save some.
With that said, if you’re short on cash and you’re contemplating whether you can afford a Framework by saving on these parts, you might be able to save a lot more by getting an off-lease ThinkPad, Latitude or even B-stock Framework. For example I just got a Latitude 7400 yesterday for $250. It’s got 16GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD.
eh. it’s also a matter of getting better parts.
Just ordered my DIY AMD 13 and picked up an Sk hynix P41 1TB for $85 from microcenter–Framework wants $100 for a slower SN770. Same deal with RAM: picked up 32GB of Crucial DDR5-5600 for $96, whereas Framework wants $160.
I’m not knocking Framework here at all, because I know they have their own overhead here and it’s convenient to get RAM in the package. But this is one advantage of their DIY model I really appreciate–$75 price difference for better parts is well worth it.