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It counts because the adapter slot cannot be used for something else. It is different with the smaller 13 inch model.

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It counts because the adapter slot cannot be used for something else.

I don’t understand this objection. I mean, sure, if you put an audio block in a slot for the headphone jack, it can’t be used for something else, but let’s say they omitted a slot and just put a fixed-into-the-case headphone jack there. I assume that you wouldn’t be happier with that.

I could maybe understand it if normally a headphone jack on a laptop went somewhere other than where the slots would be, but on my Thinkpad, it’s where the slots are on a Framework laptop.

They just give you the option to have or not have a headphones jack.

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let’s say they omitted a slot and just put a fixed-into-the-case headphone jack there.

Or let’s not because that isn’t what happened in the 13 inch model.

Point is: Placing hope into a Framework phone with a headphone jack is IMO misplaced based on Framework’s most recent track record. Not even Apple got rid of headphone jacks in MacBook Air.

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As someone with the 13, I would prefer the 6 slots on the 16 to the 4+headphone jack on the 13.

The best part of the modular slots is you can swap the side the jack is on for whatever works best or have it on both. (Through the magic of buying two of them.) Also if something goes wrong with the jack it’s significantly easier to replace.

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