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Meet the Framework Laptop: a fast, beautifully made laptop you can repair with the screwdriver in the box, upgrade generation after generation, and reconfigure in seconds — priced in NZD and shipped free to your door.
Fair enough — a laptop is a serious purchase, and “repairable and upgradeable” sounds like marketing until someone proves it. So let's skip the slogans. These are the six doubts we hear most from New Zealanders, filed with the section where each one gets answered with evidence.
Dongles are a tax you pay every day for a decision someone else made once. Framework Expansion Cards are the antidote: four bays on the Laptop 13 (six on the Laptop 16), each accepting any card, hot-swappable without a reboot. Try it — this is the actual system, with actual NZ prices.
Anyone can print “repairable” on a box. Framework published the schematics, put QR codes on the parts inside that link straight to free step-by-step guides, and sells every component individually. Then iFixit — the people who grade repairability for a living — tore it down.
“The Framework Laptop scores an exceedingly rare 10/10 on our repairability scale.” — iFixit teardown, July 2021 · Read the teardown
One screwdriver. It ships in the box.
Full teardown: about 20 minutes| Battery — Laptop 13, 61Wh | $139 |
| Battery — Laptop 13 Pro, 74Wh | $179 |
| Display kit — 2.2K matte | $360 |
| Webcam module (2nd Gen, 1080p) | $79 |
| Mainboard — Ryzen AI 300 series | from $799 |
| Heatsink & fan kit | $79 |
| Expansion cards | from $19 |
| Fastener kit (every screw) | $10 |
Prices are real Marketplace listings from frame.work/nz, captured August 2026 — check the store for current pricing. The 10/10 iFixit score is for the original Framework Laptop teardown; every Framework laptop since has been designed to the same standard, and iFixit sells genuine Framework parts directly.
“Upgradeable” is a promise most companies make once and break by year two. Framework has kept it six times. Every mainboard below fits the same Laptop 13 chassis — so the machine you buy in 2026 is also the machine you improve in 2029.
Use ← and → to travel through the years
When your workload outgrows your chip, the upgrade is a $799 mainboard and fifteen minutes — not a $2,500 laptop and a weekend of migration.
Browse mainboardsThe fair worry: a laptop designed to come apart must give something up — speed, rigidity, battery. Here's what the current machines actually do, with the fine print included.
The Laptop 13 Pro's chassis is CNC-machined from a solid block of 6000-series aluminium — the same process premium sealed laptops use. Reviewers' verdicts have been consistent: “a repairable notebook at the top of the class” (Engadget), with “superb” performance and “whisper-quiet” cooling.
We're not going to show you a leaf logo. Sustainability claims are only as good as their mechanism, so here are the mechanisms — you can verify every one.
Most of a laptop's environmental cost is manufacturing it. Every extra year of use divides that cost — and a machine whose battery, screen and brain are replaceable is a machine you can actually keep. (Illustrative reasoning, not a lab figure — the arithmetic is yours to check.)
The 61Wh pack is rated to hold 80% capacity after 1,000 cycles — and unlike a glued-in cell, replacing it costs $139 and ten minutes, not a courier and a service fee.
Spare parts, upgrades and refurbished stock keep components in use instead of in drawers. Old mainboards get second lives as desktops, servers and community projects.
Repair guides are free forever. Expansion card designs are open-source, so third parties make compatible cards without asking anyone. Read Framework's own sustainability report for the audited numbers — we won't paraphrase them into marketing.
A MacBook Air or a ThinkPad X1 is a good laptop. The question isn't whether they're good — it's what happens on day 900, when the battery sags, the RAM you bought is the RAM you die with, and the repair quote arrives. Plain comparison below; no strawmen.
| When… | Framework Laptop 13 | Typical sealed ultrabook |
|---|---|---|
| You need more RAM in two years | Two standard DDR5 sticks, bought anywhere, installed in minutes. Up to 96GB. | Soldered at purchase. The upgrade path is a new laptop. |
| The battery wears out | $139 part, one screwdriver, about ten minutes at your desk. | Authorised service: days without your machine and a bill commonly in the hundreds (estimate — varies by brand). |
| You need an HDMI port for tonight's talk | Slide in a $39 card. Tomorrow it can be Ethernet, SD, or 1TB of storage instead. | Find the dongle. Buy another dongle. Carry the dongle forever. |
| A faster chip comes out | New mainboard from $799. Keep your screen, chassis, battery and keyboard. | New laptop. Sell the old one for a fraction of what you paid. |
| You crack the screen | Full display kit from $360, replaced as one piece with a guide and a QR code on the part. | Panel-plus-labour quotes that often make “just upgrade” feel mandatory. |
| Independent repairability verdict | iFixit 10/10 — “exceedingly rare”. | Typically 1–4/10 for premium sealed designs, per iFixit's laptop scores. |
Sticker price is year-zero thinking. Drag the sliders and watch what six, eight, ten years of ownership actually costs — every assumption is visible below and priced in NZD from the real store.
Over 6 years, the Framework path saves about $3,082 — roughly $514 per year.
Assumptions, all adjustable or fixed and visible: Framework path = $1,709 DIY base (Ryzen AI 5) + ~$250 for 16GB DDR5 & 512GB NVMe bought at retail (estimate) + $139 battery at year 4 + optional $799 mainboard at year 6. Sealed path = your chosen price + battery service at year 3 (estimate — varies by brand) + a full replacement machine at year 5. Resale value excluded for both. Framework prices from frame.work/nz, August 2026.
“An exceedingly rare 10/10 on our repairability scale.”
“A repairable notebook at the top of the class.”
“The MacBook Pro for Linux users.”
“Framework hits NZ: is this the end of the five-year laptop lifespan?”
He liked it so much he bought into the company.
537 parts, guides and modules — and a community that mods the rest.
Framework opened its New Zealand store in 2026 — real NZD pricing on frame.work/nz, laptops shipped free, dispatched within five business days. What you see below is from the live NZ store, August 2026.
From $1,709 NZD
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From $3,219 NZD
Pre-order · $200 deposit, refundable until it ships · ships November
From $2,509 NZD
Ships within 5 business days · free shipping
ShippingFree on laptop and desktop orders, dispatched within five business days. Marketplace-only orders (parts, cards) carry a flat fee — Consumer NZ measured about $35.
Framework's limited warranty is included, there's a 30-day return guarantee, and New Zealand's Consumer Guarantees Act gives you statutory rights on top of any warranty. Read the warranty terms.
Free step-by-step repair guides, an active community forum with plenty of Kiwi and Australian owners, and direct support from Framework.
All figures on this page were captured from frame.work/nz in August 2026 and may change. The configurator shows live NZD pricing before you commit to anything.
A gimmick doesn't survive a teardown. iFixit — who grade every major laptop — gave the Framework a 10/10, called it “exceedingly rare”, and now sell genuine Framework parts themselves. The company publishes schematics and free repair guides, puts QR codes inside the machine that link to them, and lists every component individually in NZD: battery $139, display from $360, webcam $79. You can verify all of that before spending a dollar.
The Laptop 13 Pro's chassis is CNC-machined from a block of 6000-series aluminium — the same manufacturing process as the premium sealed laptops. It's 1.3kg and 15.85mm. Engadget's 2026 review of the 13 Pro called it “a repairable notebook at the top of the class.” The modularity lives in the engineering of the connectors, not in loose tolerances.
The current Laptop 13 runs up to a 12-core Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 — Framework's own testing has it compiling the Linux kernel in 84.63 seconds, 25% faster than the generation it replaces. The 13 Pro pairs Intel Core Ultra Series 3 with a 74Wh battery rated at 20 hours of 4K streaming. For development, writing, photo work and everyday computing it's squarely competitive with anything in its price class. If you need discrete graphics, the Laptop 16 takes an RTX 5070 module.
Fair question for any young company. The mitigations are structural: the machine uses standard parts (DDR5 memory, M.2 storage) you can buy from any retailer; the expansion card system is open-source, so anyone can manufacture compatible cards; repair documentation is free and public; and a third-party ecosystem already exists — companies like DeepComputing and WisdPi sell compatible mainboards and cards today, and iFixit distributes genuine parts. Even in the worst case, you'd own a laptop whose wear parts remain available. Meanwhile the actual trajectory: six mainboard generations shipped since 2021, NZ store opened 2026.
On day one, it's comparable: a Framework Laptop 13 DIY starts at $1,709 plus your own memory and storage. The divergence is year three onwards — when the sealed laptop needs a $300-plus battery service and the Framework needs a $139 part and ten minutes, and when the “upgrade” question means $799 for a new mainboard instead of $2,500 for a new machine. Run your own scenario in the calculator above — every assumption is visible and adjustable.
No forwarding service, no currency surprise. frame.work/nz prices in NZD, laptops ship free and dispatch within five business days, and warranty is included. Consumer NZ covered the local launch in May 2026 — including what ordering actually looks like from here. The CGA gives you statutory rights on top of any manufacturer's warranty.
It's arguably the best Linux laptop sold. The 13 Pro is available with Ubuntu pre-loaded and certified, and Framework maintains community support for Fedora, Bazzite, NixOS, Linux Mint, CachyOS and more. The DIY Edition expects you to bring your own OS. PetaPixel called the 13 Pro “the MacBook Pro for Linux users.”
Then don't — buy a pre-built with Windows 11 installed and use it exactly like any other laptop. The repairability is insurance, not homework: it's there the day something breaks, ages, or stops being enough, and any local technician can use the free guides too. Owning the option costs you nothing until the day it saves you everything.
Ready when you are
Not because nothing will ever break — but because when it does, you'll fix it in an afternoon for $139 instead of mourning it for $2,500. That's not a leap of faith. It's just the better machine, for longer.