An event in which you benefitted from the Framework “philosophy” of reparability/modularity/updradeability. When you had been able to use your Framework device in a way not generally done with traditional laptops.
I was able to upgrade my laptop hinges to the one with more tension, and my monitor from glossy to matte.
Both would not have been possible on other machines.
I gave a presentation and the HDMI cable only reached the right side of my laptop, so I switched the port from the left to the right side.
Pretty mundane, but not possible with any other device.
I have had the same use case, but with the USB-C port for different docks.
If the dock is on the other side I just switch the USB-C port to that side and I’m good.
It is not a flashy use case, but it is very convenient.
Not really yet. I’m in charge of purchasing hardware at my company and maintaining them. I’ve been replacing our Lenovos slowly and we have about 10 Frameworks now out of 50.
The Lenovos has a huge issue with their USB-C charging ports becoming faulty pretty fast. Not sure if that’s normal, but with Framework, I can potentially just replace the port for really cheap.
I mean just the usual of the changeable ports, I have slowly moved from yubikeys to passkeys, and I decided that I no longer needed a spare USB-A so I shifted to another -C
Also very, very small, but I sit on one side of the couch where I want the charger on the right. Previously I wanted it on the left. With the Framework, I just swapped which side my “default” USB-C charging port was. Small but impactful!
I wanted to buy a framework with decent battery life but it cost 2000 dollars so I gave up and bought a surface instead.
Both of them don’t even hold a candle to MacBook air battery life.
I have a hybrid job and use a dock+kvm at home but thanks to fully implemented USB 4 I only need one cable at the office to power and provide dual monitors.
I can now travel with a single charger and single cable but going from home to office or back I require only one connection.
