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0 pointsAurornis26d ago0 comments

> If you're not willing to pay a 20% premium for upgradability/fixability, then you don't _really_ want it. And that's fine!

$799 versus $499 is a 60% premium.

The best case numbers are buying used RAM and SSD for the Framework like Jeff did in the article ($749 total, if you can find the RAM at those prices) and comparing against the non-EDU MacBook Neo at $599. That's still a 25% premium.

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eduction20d ago

Original article: "The problem is, for an overall worse experience, are you willing to pay 20-40% more?"

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tracker126d ago

Now pretend you can't get the student discount and actually want the extended warranty/applecare and compare the final result.

Now pretend you want to bump up to 16gb of ram so you can run a VM.

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