Like others, reading the posts in here evokes some nostalgia/memories 
So the last laptop I bought (prior to the FW16) for personal use was actually my first one too:
Wikipedia: IBM_PC_Convertible
(yeah been a while, so just a little bit of an upgrade 
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I have bought tablets and similar, but for laptops on the personal side I have been just working with hand-me-downs from friends and such. Had a number of desktops/servers at home, just not bought a laptop in a long time.
So I had been thinking I needed to get a new laptop and I wanted to get one I could run Linux on it as supported option. I had looked at System76 and was leaning that way on my research… when a friend and colleague asked if I had heard about framework. I hadn’t and so started looking (was earlyish 2023)
And I liked what I saw. Having modular options reminded me a bit of the old Dell (latitude 6xx series?) I had for work. It had a modular bay for 3.5" floppy, zip drives, and such. Official Linux support. So having an input bay that could take a numpad (optionally) along with the expansion bays was appealing.
I also liked the user group after being on the forums for a while as well as the company mindset on things like repairablity. I live in the area where iFixIt was founded and actually know one of the OG folks personally and it made me quite happy to see this post from the head of framework when the FW16 was getting initial reviews:
My most recent hand-me-down laptop was an HP that started failing to boot, and I’m sure something that wouldn’t be bad to fix if they had the supportive community/company like framework.