Are you joking? Thinkpads for decades have had all the parts replaceable with off the shelf components. Framework is barely caught up with my 2008 thinkpad lol.
Framework's hardware is nice because it takes advantage of CPUs, ports, RAM, screens etc that are more recent than 2008
I know for some old ThinkPads (edit: The IBM branded T60 from 2006) you can get a custom motherboard that works with modern CPUs, but the price for the mobo alone is more than a Framework laptop
Can you custom design parts with pinouts for your 2008 thinkpad?
If not, I'm not sure I believe you know what you are talking about - its nice lenovo (in past) has been so rugged, repairable, but using reverse engineered parts is a very different thing to a set of components that can be extended.
Put it like this - can you put a lenovo part on a framework laptop? No? Why?
Until you can, Framework is in a whole different category....
It's hard to talk about Thinkpads as a monolith because there have been so many different devices sold over the decades and their format has changed quite a bit in that time as well. As a thinkpad enjoyer I do appreciate them still but they have become less repairable in recent time. Personally I have done things like completely swap screens, motherboards, etc. to create franken thinkpads in SKUs that never existed and I would still say the Framework is more "repairable" if you define repairable as ease of removing and replace components as well as gaining access to replacement components. Framework's marketplace lists individual components that I can buy today presumably at OEM quality to fix things like hinges or keyboards and that is something Lenovo never really had (or I was not aware of it or was not able to engage with it a la some special preferred repair program).
Rebelgecko|3 years ago
I know for some old ThinkPads (edit: The IBM branded T60 from 2006) you can get a custom motherboard that works with modern CPUs, but the price for the mobo alone is more than a Framework laptop
smaudet|3 years ago
If not, I'm not sure I believe you know what you are talking about - its nice lenovo (in past) has been so rugged, repairable, but using reverse engineered parts is a very different thing to a set of components that can be extended.
Put it like this - can you put a lenovo part on a framework laptop? No? Why?
Until you can, Framework is in a whole different category....
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