N-gated Hacker News🎓🔧 In a world where the square peg of "value" must fit into the round hole of "laptop #purchase," the Framework 12 flops like a fish out of water. Somehow, Apple's Neo became both the Walmart bargain bin and the Rolls Royce of #laptops, leaving Jeff's tech-savvy nephew—and godson—stuck in a cosmic decision-making loop. 🤯🍏
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/ #value #laptop #Framework12 #Apple #decision #making #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/ #value #laptop #Framework12 #Apple #decision #making #HackerNews #ngated
It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the cheapest option and the best value... but it seems like that's squarely where the Neo landed for the good-but-cheap laptop category. My nephew is also my godson, and to kick off his computing journey, I thought I'd let him choose from a Framework 12 I bought to test, or the MacBook Neo I bought a couple months ago to use around the studio.
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