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I’m not convinced that a mid cycle GPU upgrade fixes the problem of e-waste at all. The problem is everyone is obsessed with having the best they can afford all the time.
Buying a laptop designed to make it through 2 generations that maybe will offer some pricy parts down the road vs. spending that extra money on a better single use laptop and keeping it for a decade or more…I think doesn’t make sense.
I haven’t purchased a laptop since 2013. The screen is still nice, still plenty fast, storage is fast, I replaced the battery…why upgrade?
Now if someone going off to college needs a laptop. Am I going to ever recommend a new company’s new product that is attempting to shake up the laptop market? Absolutely not.
Framework will not appeal to the average person. So they will stay small. And a don’t expect a small laptop manufacturer to ever make a meaningful difference to the environment. I expect their net impact to be bad for the environment. And ultimately a waste of time and effort.
We don’t need another new product to save the environment. We need to stop consuming.
I'm thinking more of the opposite; mainboard does/needs replacing and you can get a new one and not change the GPU
I am really glad your laptop is durable and long lasting, but most laptop do break and slow down. When they do, they will need to be either throw away entirely or commit incremental upgrade. Incremental upgrade is IMO certainly the better option of the two.
Ideal logical shift is not mutually exclusive to better product, both will do good.
like you said, we need a ideological shift, people need to change. Maybe it is a good time to promote repairable electronics than talk down upon it.
@GregoryTheGreat
Maybe. But any solution rooted in a large scale reversal of behavior isn't practical.
Discontinuing incremental progress because its not enough is a good way to make no progress at all.
@baseless_discourse