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Comment by simonjgreen | Hacker News Reader

This is largely driven by RAM prices, which is a real shame.

I bought a Thinkpad P16s with 64 GB of LPDDR5x ram in October 2024 for just over $1100.

64 GB of LPDDR5x will add $849 to the price of a Framework 13 Pro. Thats insane. I would love a future Framework 16 Pro but that will probably run $3500 for the configuration that I would want if memory and storage prices don't come down.

You need to consider the upgradability aspect too - the next time you want to upgrade, you just need to buy a new mainboard, which would be considerably cheaper than buying a whole new laptop.

A new mainboard that may need new memory. From another comment in thread:

  I have 64GB of DDR4 in my current laptop, and replacing that with the same amount of LPCAMM2 LPDDR5X is probably more expensive than the rest of the laptop itself.

And another:

  I just had my mainboard die, and I was advised there currently isn't another mainboard in stock that works with my old DDR4 RAM

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