[technofiend]

Well I suppose that depends on what you consider well designed. Designed to maximize Apple's profit and prevent consumer choice or upgrades? Undeniably true. Woe to the buyer who decides a year later he needs double the RAM or storage. At the very least he or she must resell their device and buy new again. So to that buyer I dare say frame.work is both competitive, innovative and a better choice than a glued shut hunk of electronics with everything soldered on. System on a chip is not relevant here as both storage and memory are outboard, as is a GPU once one needs better graphics performance than an integrated GPU/CPU can provide.

[felistoria]

Framework can't compete with the M1 chip unfortunately. I love what Framework is doing though.

[technofiend]

Absolutely the M1 and I'm sure M1X / M2 beat everything on the market. The question is whether consumers need the M* chips or if the latest Intel or AMD offerings are good enough given the tradeoffs. I don't have FOMO over most work per watt or suspend features on a laptop.

Funnily enough my ipad pro is great for light development work and remote access to a real workstation when I need it. For me there's no compelling reason to buy a MacBook. And as my pro is past the two year Applecare window I now have to treat it with kid gloves since a dropping it will be a $1,000 mistake. That definitely informs my next purchase which will not be an impossible to repair and expensive to replace disposable-by-design device.