Hi, prospective buyer here?
First of all, I absolutely love the look of the framework. Id be dead set on buying it if it wasnt for one thing: battery life.
I’m a university student who travels around a lot so for me battery life is the make or break factor for a laptop. Heretical as it is to say here I’m really weighing up between a framework 13 and a macbook air m2. The M2 lacks everything I love about the framework, but its battery life is undeniably amazing.
What real world battery life do you guys get on your frameworks? And what would be the best configuration battery life wise? I was considering getting the low tier AMD model and installing a 61wh battery in it myself.
Would i be able to last a good 8 hour day or will i need a powerbank?
Every laptop I’ve ever owned I end up replacing because the battery capacity declines (for me, typically every 3-4 years) to the point that I’m afraid to charge it unsupervised.
So it’s not just initial battery life for me, which is about 8+ hours of average use on my new AMD 7840 FW (consisting mostly of web browsing, YouTube watching, and email lately) but when that battery capacity eventually worsens, I can just buy a new battery and easily replace it. To me, that’s a huge factor in its favor.
Yeah, that’s what put me over the fence as well. All of my old laptops (including macbooks) were mostly fine when I replaced them, but had gotten terrible battery life over time + some other, more minor issues. Framework fixes that.
Heck, you might even be able to upgrade to a better battery in a few years!