Table of contents If you have ever bought a laptop and felt frustrated when something breaks, you cannot fix it yourself, or the battery dies just two years in, Framework laptops were built for you. Framework Computer is an American laptop maker founded in January 2020 by Nirav Patel, a former Apple engineer who also led hardware at Oculus and Meta. His idea was simple: laptops should be built to last, and when something goes wrong, you should be able to fix it yourself without sending it to a s...

Table of contents A few years ago, the decision to buy a budget smartphone was simple. If a phone was cheap, you already knew what you were giving up: smooth performance, durability, long-term usability, sometimes all three. Budget phones were stopgaps, not devices you expected to rely on every day. That assumption doesn’t quite hold anymore. I noticed this shift the first time I spent a full day with a Tecno Pop 10. Scrolling felt unusually smooth. The phone didn’t lag when switching betwee...