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Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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Not gonna lie that reasoning makes no sense to me, unless you have an actual problem with your current laptop I don't think "just in case my current laptop stops working" is much of a reason. Why not buy a new laptop when it actually runs out of life?
Also second hand laptops are awesome. Save money, save the environment and there is hardly any difference between a laptop today and a laptop from 2 years ago. You could even get a faster laptop with the money you saved from going second hand.
Anyway spend your money how you like, I have a bad habit of getting into an argument with everyone I talk to.
Not trying to convince anyone or to rationalize my own irrationality here but I'd rather have a working laptop to transfer from than a dead one, and with the fast increasing prices of components, the best time for a new laptop is either yesterday or after the AI bubble eventually pops and the market re-adjusts (I wouldn't bet the latter to take less than a couple years neither my current laptop to survive this long).
Buying second hand also means passing on Panther Lake, and LPDDR5, so a fast laptop is one thing, but with the goal of keeping it 8 years or so like the current one, efficiency is as important if not more. Efficiency figures are quite striking (and in the 60%): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/framework-laptop-13-pro-review-much-better-battery-much-worse-price/