The only reason to have a desktop PC these days IMO is if you need something very powerful (for gaming, video editing, CAD etc.), otherwise laptops today can generally have plenty of power for most people.
So, yes, I'd just buy a dock for your FW and use that. Also worth getting a laptop stand to improve airflow around the case just in case things get toasty.
As with any courier/delivery service it all depends where you live and how good or bad your local depot is. For some people FedEx will be the best of the lot, for others not so much. There's no hard and fast rule. In my case FedEx generally outperforms UPS for deliveries. For others it might be the other way round.
For charging or charging and data? For charging I like the Anker braided ones. Just bought a 10ft, 100W cable but as with all charging cables the data rate is only 480Mbps.
If you value battery life over everything else then a Macbook is a no-brainer IMO. That said, you should be able to get a Ryzen or even an Intel 13th gen FW13 to last at least 8 hours without much difficulty.
yes, Thinkpads just seem so solid, even the more recent ones. The only thing I truly hate about them, build-wise, is that coating they use that's a huge grease magnet. If the weather's hot and/or you have sweaty hands a new Thinkpad will look like someone dumped a quart of motor oil over it within a few days! What's more, the grease marks in well-handled areas can be impossible to fully get out eventually regardless of the cleaning products used. The older Thinkpads with the hard black plastic never suffered from this issue. I'm really looking forward to the bare aluminum of the FW13.
Any idea if you still have to go through this if you swap out the AMD wireless card for the Intel AX210 before installing Windows?
There was a good deal on 32GB of Crucial RAM ($65-$72 depending on store) but it was sold out everywhere by Sunday. The only other deals I've seen are at NewEgg, which has some discounts on the G-Skill 64GB kits (CL40 for $175 and CL46 for around $163). Otherwise all the decent RAM discounts have been for configurations other than DDR5 5600Mhz.
Ah, reminds me of the Thinkpads of old -- external batteries, ultrabay that could hold another battery or whatever else you need, swapping drives, wireless cards, etc. and finding that perfect keyboard from the best of the 2-3 manufacturers they used. I also remember hunting down the last T-series they made with a 4:3 screen (the T61)
I can't see how a charger can fail because of what it's charging, especially if it has plenty of headroom (a Framework 13 is designed for a 65W charger). More likely to fail because it's either a lemon or the electrical outlet is bad in some way, so I call bad luck on the Anker and perhaps predictable luck on the rando brand.
It's Gen3 and also a DRAM-less drive so will choke a bit with sustained writes. The 4TB Teamgroup MP34 is the same price and is IMO a better SSD.
The bigger problem is that I never seem to be able to get superglue to actually stick things together. Literally everything I've used it on has come unstuck. Skin seems to be the only thing I can reliably stick with superglue. When it comes to gluing plastic or metal I always use an epoxy, which can get messy.
I have Anker 65W and 100W GAN charger and both should work fine with the FW13 although one reviewer reported that a 65W charger (FW's own) cannot keep up with power consumption during intensive tasks so the laptop keeps flipping between AC and battery power. General consensus seems to be get a 100W charger to be safe, especially considering they're not much bigger than 65W ones.