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In the category of laptops I thought I'd see the Frame.work in the first place (as it has the best iFixIt index), but instead the place is taken by the P775DM3-G, a Clevo laptop, a brand I had never heard of (the brand is listed as a "Why" but that's an error, this is the reseller's name).

https://www.indicereparabilite.fr/appareils/multimedia/ordin...

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Clevo is very common, it's just that it's always sold via resellers so you might not realise it. Eg system76 also sells Clevo laptops afaik

the two "why" laptops before the frame.work laptop are ranked 97.6 which is rounded to 98 and then 9,8 as score; the frame.work is ranked 97.0 without rounding so it ends being 9,7 .

the frame.work gets a higher score on the ease of disassembly and the tools you need to disassemble, but it gets a lower score on the documentation ( <flame> maybe documentation is not in french </flame> ) and on the price ratio for the component; probably frame.work parts are a bit more expensive in comparison with the price of the laptop.

It seems like the shipment delay of the parts, as well as the ratio price-of-the-separated-part/price-of-the-part-in-the-laptop are factors.

It is not the parts that seem to be expensive, it's that they are more expensive bought separately than bought inside a new laptop.

Also the availability duration for the parts. Maybe the uncertainty stemming from that Frame.work is a recently created startup?

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