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I purchased one last year and it's been great so far.

Pros: - price. I have spare RAM and NVME ssd so this brings the price further down - modular port...

Cons: - display/hinge is not very stable - touch pad is not as good as macbook's. I can't reliably click-and-drag using a singe hand (thumb finger to click, then index finger to drag). On macbook this gesture works perfectly fine.

Wish there is a bigger version, and/or a swappable battery!

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Very happy owner of the laptop, but the display hinge is the only thing I don't like about it.

It's just a bit too lose, to the point that the screen will slowly fold flat over the course of an hour on my lap. It's also just lose enough that it transfers a lot of vibrations on my desk (from typing) into wobble on the camera during screen-shares.

If that hinge were just a bit tighter, I'd have no complaints about it. It's a great laptop.

"I can't reliably click-and-drag using a singe hand" --- Does a single-finger double tap and drag not work?

Once I learned this gesture, dragging with the touchpad went from "horribly frustrating" to "so easy I can do it without thinking". Would be curious if/how it doesn't work for some folks.

Exactly the same story here.

I love my framework as well! My main con is the battery life, although part of that is because I set the max charge % to 90 to hopefully protect long-term life

Try index finger to click, middle finger to drag. That's always been my habit.

It's worse than using the thumb because you have less range and it's a lot less comfortable. Thumb-click index-drag is for me also a requirement.

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