Quite a lot of hardware detail in this half-hour video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvYt1GgcsUI>, in which Framework CEO
Nirav Patel, assisted by Izzy, his hardware product manager, do
side-by-side teardowns of their company?s Laptop 12 model and Apple?s
new MacBook Neo. He does try not to let his bias show *too* much, by
being complimentary to the Neo?s better screen, and also by being
reasonably even-handed in his discussion of respective design
tradeoffs (just compare the size of the two different mainboards, for
-- to me at least -- the most dramatic example of this).

Both target the sub-US$1000 market, but of course they do it in very
different ways: the whole philosophy of Framework is to keep things
modular for easy repair and upgradeability, while Apple has
traditionally taken a ?keep out? attitude to would-be do-it-yourself
hardware tinkerers.

It appears, though that the Neo represents a shift in this attitude
somewhat -- not that Apple has much choice, with new EU rules on
minimizing e-waste coming into effect. Plus of course the political
pressure from consumer-driven right-to-repair movements on both sides
of the Atlantic.

He talks at the end about an emphasis on the education market -- a
market which Apple dominated back in the last century, but gave up
somewhat in the last couple of decades. Seems like the Neo might
represent an attempt by Apple to reestablish a presence here, while
Patel says he is already getting lots of queries from schools looking
to save costs by buying more easily repairable products.

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