How much RAM and SSD do you need for CAD? The more you need, the more you are going to be ripped off by anyone who supports then to the board.

If you want to upgrade with an all soldered machine, it brands throwing everything away and starting fresh.

Even if there exists some magical and super cheap Dell with 1/10 the the price of the framework that can outperform it (really? How about a link with the process and performance numbers) - can you upgrade the motherboard when a btw I’ve comes out? And reuse the older one as a PC?

I’ll have you try another experiment. Add 64gb of ram and a 4tb HDD. Then compare it with Apple or Lenovo or Sony with that storage, a similar processor, the same screen size, and a metal chassis.

Everyone else will charge you huge markups in the SSD and RAM. The markup from framework isn’t nearly as large, and you can it to buy on your own (with no markup).

The base config is the worse case scenario.

And again, it’s not about the money anyway. If apple sold a $700 m2 MacBook pro and I would pay them the extra $500 to make it repairable and upgradable, I would - but I can’t.

Dave with the thinner Lenovo’s, etc.

And even better, they don’t need to post!

Yeah I only wish my Thinkpad for anywhere near that much life

Hehe I think maybe I want direct enough with my questions, based on the two answers above.

I basically only use stuff included with the distro, which with Ubuntu and pop os is a lot. All of that stuff world on arm just fine.

(Yes there are different ARM targets, but that’s true of Intel too…)

There are only two third party precompiled binaries I use: light works and result sync. Resilio sync comes with an arm version. Light works, I haven’t checked - but since they support apple silicon, one can assume that if desktop arm Linux became popular, they would support it.

One of the reasons I love Linux is freedom to choose your processor instead of being locked in, so …

Curious what other people might be running that only works on specific processors.