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by colinng 1134 days ago
Neat! An upgradable laptop made with high quality materials!

I know nobody asked for my opinion, but I saw the [Ethernet card](https://frame.work/ca/en/products/ethernet-expansion-card) and was a bit sad. How about something like 3Com XJACK to keep it small and without protrusions when travelling?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XJACK

Or the spring-loaded swivel down port from Lenovo?

https://www.reviewgeek.com/p/uploads/2021/05/c9c310c4.jpg

That said, I’m not their target audience…

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I've personally never had one of those hinged ethernet jacks reliably work. Or, they do, but the link is incredibly unstable. I just settled on having a thick enough laptop to support a 'native' full-size jack in my last purchase cycle, but I could see the Framework style being very nice for how little I find myself using it: that way when you _need_ a full size jack, you have one that's stable.

I suspect most people these days have hardwired networking to a laptop dock, and then thunderbolt from there to the laptop anyway.