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Louis Rossmann and the Price of a Bent Pin
A broken laptop led him to a park bench, then to millions of viewers and state legislatures. Now Louis Rossmann is asking who really controls the devices people buy.
Nirav Patel Is Putting the Screwdriver Back Into Personal Computing
After Apple and Oculus taught him how tightly modern devices could be integrated, Nirav Patel founded Framework to prove a more generous idea: a computer can be elegant, competitive and still belong to the person who bought it.
Chris Lombardozzi and the Useful Life of Almost Everything
Before he helped turn a repairable laptop into a marketplace and a business fleet, Chris Lombardozzi helped build a bicycle co-op. The objects changed. The operating principle did not.
Framework Laptop 13 Pro Gives Linux Developers the Laptop They Asked For - and a RAM Bill They Didn’t
Framework finally gave its repairable 13-inch laptop the battery, build quality, and Linux polish its fans kept requesting. The catch is a volatile memory market that can make the modular option cost more than the sealed machines it was built to outlast.
Framework Builds the One Laptop You Are Not Supposed to Throw Away
A San Francisco hardware company bet that people would rather turn a screw than buy a new machine. Five years, a 16-inch gaming laptop and a desktop later, the bet is still paying out.