Considering Framework...please help

Framework Laptop 13
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Hi, I’m new to technology shtuffs and I had a friend recommend this laptop, but was wondering if someone could dumb things down for me. I’d really appreciate it. I’ve done a good bit of research, but am still not completely understanding (I shouldve taken a computer science class or something lol). I’m looking to understand specs and compare if I should look into getting this laptop for my son for his college work or if his current laptop is great enough that it’d be pointless to buy a replacement.

Forgive me for not knowing the important details, but I’ll try my best to list the important specs of my son’s current laptop. It’s a Lenovo ideapad 1 (15’, 7) AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics, 12 GB RAM, storage says “477 GB” and idk what 2GB graphics mean. This laptop was bought at a bestbuy about 4 or 5 years ago I believe for something like $700. I can’t remember if it was an openbox deal or sale or something. Oh, it also runs windows 11

My son complains about it being slow, the cursor disappearing occasionally, and things that sound like it’s obsolete or has malware. Thank you guys for your input!

The post says I need a tag so I clicked what I think is the newest version of the FW13. Sorry if that was wrong!

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Let your son choose. Give him a budget and request that he do the research to decide what he wants.

My recommendation is for the both of you to search up “Just Josh” on youtube and watch his laptop reviews (there are a couple specific to framework). Do watch Josh’s reviews for students going to college - there is a lot of good advice in there.

My son chose his own laptop about 3 years ago and he made a good choice - a new low end gaming laptop which he says has been perfect for a stem major (made his cad/engineering classes easier since his laptop could handle the workload).

At the time, I recommended he not choose a framework. I now own a framework 13 and love it. While its the right computer for me and both my son and I think a framework would have worked form him - he says not getting a framework at that time was the right choice.

HTH

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Just Josh. Thank you! I’ll look into that. I also did notice there’s laptops for different purposes like specifically for gaming which somehow multiple cores handles that stuff better or single cores which is like…tabs?? Idk what he needs exactly so Thank you for pointing me into a place to keep digging :slight_smile: