Framework Laptop 13 review: A good laptop and an even better concept

I have a fraught relationship with the Apple Genius Bar. Between 2019 and 2021, I spent over $1,400 on repairs for my Intel-era MacBook Pro — thrice to replace a cracked display and once to fix five keycaps that kept falling out. (Before you ask, yes, they had butterfly switches.) I was on an early-career freelance writer’s budget at the time, so the bills hit like a truck, and the wait time for repairs left me scrambling.

It’s circumstances like mine that make Framework’s modular laptops so enticing.