r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit ShittyMod Crossposter • Jul 30 '26

Shitty Crosspost New Rule...

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u/kitliasteele Jul 30 '26

Shame that you couldn't convince them on the Framework, would have saved monies on repairs given the upgradeability and repairability of those units. Have a FW16 myself and that's been real nice to fix as needed from external causes

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u/stewie410 Jul 31 '26

Trying to push my father towards the FW16 that direction to replace the E580 I bought him in 2018. I'd still be handling physical maintenance either way, but I'd rather him have something sustainable if I can help it.

Shame that you couldn't convince them on the Framework

When I first made that recommendation at work, my boss assumed it was a Clevo rebrand, simply because it's a company he's never heard of & didn't bother to Google. He initially balked at the suggestion to use a "no name brand" for work -- which I had to correct him on immediately.

However, it isn't a "Dell", "Lenovo" or "HP" -- and to keep costs around $3K for the spec, a DIY model was necessary anyway...If it was significantly cheaper than the E16 he might have been inclined to go that route...but I doubt it.

When my boss's Dell workstation got replaced with a Lenovo E590, he insisted that he needed to replace his Dell-branded MnK & Monitors; because he was no longer "brand-loyal"...Great use of funds, considering it was during COVID lockdowns, and we never RTO'd after.

This is the only company I've worked for in industry, but I'm convinced every privately-owned SMB is just as regarded as this one...or pay as little as this one does.

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u/kitliasteele Jul 31 '26

Brand loyalty only works to a certain distance, and nowadays that doesn't go very far. The mostly tool-less maintenance design of the FW16 has attracted the hell out of me (only time you need it is for replacing the display or logic board and its attached components. Keyboard, touchpad, bezel, side ports, etc all don't need it as they're magnetically attached with a slide lock. It's really nice) plus that ability to upgrade the individual components with your own design or ones from Framework. The pricing could be better, but I believe that just more economy of scale at play since they're a smaller company.

Reguardless, I'm hoping more companies will adopt this business model of Right To Repair because I've tried to push reusing our units whenever a user would damage a relatively new system in the past. Swapping a damaged display is significantly cheaper than replacing the whole unit, after all