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Of a laptop’s carbon footprint comes from manufacturing

The laptop designed to outlive its own specs

Framework designs laptops with modular, upgradeable parts. Sell components separately so customers can swap processors, screens, and batteries instead of buying new machines. Open-source everything so anyone can repair or build on the platform.

Every Framework laptop ships with a screwdriver.

It's the only tool you need to take the whole thing apart.

Founder Nirav Patel was employee #0001 at Oculus. He watched the most advanced electronics on the planet become paperweights in a few years, not because they broke, but because one component failed and you couldn't replace it.

So he dug in. And found that making laptops repairable was surprisingly straightforward. The sealed cases, proprietary screws, soldered RAM, none of it was necessary. The industry just chose not to.

The industry just chose not to.

Framework launched in 2020 to prove the point. A laptop bought in 2021 runs 2025 processors, just swap the motherboard. Old motherboards become mini PCs. QR codes inside link to repair guides. Spare screws tucked into the case. 85 open-source repos on GitHub.

Their official position? "We Are Not Sustainable" A blog post about why even repairable hardware has an environmental cost, and why honesty beats greenwashing.

It's working. Microsoft Surface went from 0/10 to 8/10 repairability after Framework proved there was a market. (ifixit scores)

Every laptop repaired is a laptop that doesn't need to be built.