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In this thread: perfect being the enemy of better.
Overall I am very happy with companies interacting with and funding the open source development community. I respect framework a whole lot more than dell, for example.
Or the other manufacturer of high quality aluminium dev-spec laptops, who sent their CEO to the White House to give Trump a golden plaque.
I’m not familiar with all the situation at that side of the pond… HP?
Apple
Ah, OK, thanks. Now I remember I’ve seen some ridiculous photo of Orange man with golden plaque. Thought it was a joke/meme/AI slop, turns out it’s real, lol.
As others have commented, Apple … but also when was the last time HP was a manufacturer of quality anything? 😭
Was there a first time?
Once upon a time, HP and quality were synonymous.
https://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=3&cat=32
(Edit: Though apparently the 3000 had some issues early on. Which were notable because reliability and quality issues were so non-HP).
It was … quite a while ago though. By the time I came to use HP gear in the late 90s and on, they still had a reputation for quality, though it was increasingly less deserved.
I swear by HP test equipment.
I have an HP LaserJet 4050. I bought it with 450000 pages on it, and have likely put on another 20000. It was built in 1997, and still works perfectly. All of its maintenance parts are user-serviceable, its toner is generic and readily available, and it supports postscript and pcl. All you need to use it on a modern computer is a serial or parallel port, or use its internal network server that uses both the standard lpr protocol or HP jetdirect.
Yes, there absolutely was a time when HP made good stuff. It ended in the mid 2000s. When they stopped production of the HP 48 and 50 series calculators was the end of their good years.
Love these guys. Have one of their laptops and one of my friends recently ordered one as well. :)
yep and they reduced gnome down to $0 after gnome called them nazi’s
good work gnome, you played yourself
Oh, I should start donating to Gnome.
A GNOME developer essentially called Framework’s CEO fashy. GNOME as a project did not deride Framework as Nazis.
Laptops looked neat, then I looked at pricing and possible I/O combos and Lenovo still kills it.
Saw them as a possible thinkpad replacement but noped at the pricing then double noped after the I/O options. They are awesome machines though, glad they’re around, without them I’m not so sure Lenovo would have made the new T series so repairable.
Framework is nothing more, than a compromise with the enshittification came from the push of techbro journos soyfacing over ultrathin Macbooks, and having meltdowns if a notebook isn’t made with “high quality premium materials”.
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