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Buying components separately, saving money? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Has anyone bought some of the components (e.g. a hard drive or RAM) somewhere else instead of buying the full laptop from the frame.work website?

Was is worth it?

Looks like an easy possibility to save a few hundred dollars/euros...

Just curious...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You could save some.

With that said, if you're short on cash and you're contemplating whether you can afford a Framework by saving on these parts, you might be able to save a lot more by getting an off-lease ThinkPad, Latitude or even B-stock Framework. For example I just got a Latitude 7400 yesterday for $250. It's got 16GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

eh. it's also a matter of getting better parts.

Just ordered my DIY AMD 13 and picked up an Sk hynix P41 1TB for $85 from microcenter--Framework wants $100 for a slower SN770. Same deal with RAM: picked up 32GB of Crucial DDR5-5600 for $96, whereas Framework wants $160.

I'm not knocking Framework here at all, because I know they have their own overhead here and it's convenient to get RAM in the package. But this is one advantage of their DIY model I really appreciate--$75 price difference for better parts is well worth it.