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Comment by ar_lan | Hacker News Reader

Holy moly. A Ryzen 5 on the 13" with 1 TB SN850x SSD and 32GB RAM is ~$1250. That is insane to me.

If I get laid off anytime soon I'm ordering this immediately.

For such a low-volume company, the prices are very ok! Still expensive for budget-constrained buyers of course, but not more than others in their segment. The ability to order without RAM or SSD makes up for any difference as well, buying those aftermarket is a really good deal.

The only ridiculous thing about framework's pricing are the CPU tier upgrades - almost 400 bucks to go from the ryzen 5 to the ryzen 7 is ridiculous.

(Then again, you can just get the ryzen 5 and use the money you saved to upgrade your motherboard a year earlier and get the zen6 / zen7 ryzen 5 motherboard)

I'm not sure I exactly follow your logic - do you think that price is insane(ly high)? or insane(ly low)? If it's high, why would you want to order it when you get laid off?

It's low compared to Apple (which is the only comparison I'm making).

The cheapest I can find that is comparable is an M1 Macbook Air which, for the same price point, comes with 16gb RAM + 256gb storage, or an M2 Macbook Pro w/ 8gb RAM.

"Insanely low" is definitely an exaggeration but in the modern day this just seems pretty reasonable for what appears to be decent specs - plus I just really like Framework's model.

Apple, where NAND flash and RAM costs are stuck in 2013.

Why though? Are they using higher endurance NAND with better controller?

Nope, Apple just likes profit.

Not parent poster but my reason is that I use my job's workstation as my personal laptop as well; so as to avoid getting yet another laptop (minimalism and all that).

The article says Ryzen 7 7840U.

I don't imagine the Ryzen 7's benefits being worth the extra cost, as I don't think I really need them. The Ryzen 5 should be fine for what I do.

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