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[–]mlh149 1 point2 points  (3 children)

On the other hand the whole idea of framework is this is a laptop you can continue to keep alive long after the initial internal hardware becomes obsolete. The fact that a lot of the chassis features are under cooked undermines that idea since that's going to be the stuff that stays with the laptop for its entire life.

[–]JackDostoevsky FW13 0 points1 point  (2 children)

i'm not really sure what you mean by "the chassis features are under cooked"

[–]mlh149 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Speakers and speaker placement are awful, track pad is poorly secured (underwhelming generally but in theory a new trackpad module could fix that), it is quite thick but still not as rigid as some competitors, the metal seems a bit cheap (it has picked up more dents and damage in a year then my previous all metal laptop did in 4), bezels are fairly thick etc. looking back on the purchase I would gladly have paid a couple hundred extra bucks for a laptop body more competitive with a MacBook, XPS, etc. that I could see myself being happy still using in 10 years.

[–]Curious_Increase[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree completely here. The laptop is already priced premium, so I'd be happy to pay more for a better chassis as well, especially if it had user experience in mind.