Sean Hollister

Plug a bunch of things in.

Easy.

So save $300 that way.

The bad thing about DIY is they don't actually give you all that much of a discount to do it that way because then you still need to add your memory, your storage, your OS, your expansion cards.

It ends up costing sometimes the same, sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more.

But it's not generally enough of a savings if they're giving you what you want in the pre-built.

It's only if you need to configure more things you go DIY.

Right.

Anyhow, so $1499 there.

But things go up quickly.

They go up rather fast.

You're looking at $2099, nearly $2100, if you want to do the model that's going to have a nice processor with all of that extra internal graphics for doing gaming or other things that require graphics.

It's a huge difference in terms of graphic performance between the 5 and the X7.

You also get double the CPU cores, double the RAM to 32 gig, double the storage to one terabyte.

It's a lot of things that you get at that level.

So it's like, oh, yeah, is that justified because you get a lot of things?

Maybe.

But it's still twenty one hundred dollars.

Yeah.

And to be fair to Framework, their laptops have always had this kind of value proposition where it's like, you can buy the incumbent and you will get the same or maybe a good bit more, usually a good bit more.