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Why Yes, I Would Love to Build My Own Customisable, Upgradable, Totally Repairable Laptop Share Image: Framework To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. San Francisco-based startup Framework just announced a thin, lightweight productivity laptop unlike any other on the market right now. Sure, it looks similar to the aluminium options almost every other laptop maker offers, but this lap...

The Framework Laptop could be the answer to the tech industry's material shortage problems. That is, of course, if anyone buys it.

Image: Framework San Francisco-based startup Framework just announced a thin, lightweight productivity laptop unlike any other on the market right now. Sure, it looks similar to the aluminum options almost every other laptop maker offers, but this laptop can be upgraded, customized, and repaired in ways that others just can’t. Advertisement To start, Framework laptops have four swappable port bays, which can eliminate the need for a separate port dock all together. Framework calls this the Expansion Card System. There’s the default USB-C card, which supports USB4, 20V/5A charging, and Dis...

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 fou...

Framework wants to apply the Fairphone model to laptops.