How Framework plans to break the curse of upgradeable laptops This small startup thinks it can pull off something no PC maker has ever achieved. Credit: Framework An upgradeable laptop has long been the Holy Grail of laptop features. And much like the famed Grail, it's never been found. Enter Framework, which pledges to finally bring the Holy Grail home to Camelot with a modular, do-it-yourself and upgradeable laptop. Being a witness to all of the prior quest failures, well, we have our doubts. Many of them. But after talking at length with Framework founder Nirav Patel we again found our hope rekindled and maybe, just maybe this time someone will succeed. Patel seems to have answers for most of the problems that brought down everyone else, including TDP limits and consumers simply breaking the things while building them.