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by mntmn 2y ago
There was an initial crowdfunding period first which we have almost completely fulfilled now (working on the last shipment of 68 devices atm). The devices you are buying now are from Crowd Supply's stock which we will start fulfilling
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by mntmn 2y ago
The US price starts at $999, but you get hit with VAT when ordering from Europe. The VAT situation will be a bit different once we can offer these in our own (EU based) shop in a few weeks. Keep in mind we're hand assembling these in B
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by mntmn 2y ago
I did something similar in 2022, also with LiteX, but not self-hosting because it used a Kintex-7 FPGA which at least at the time required Vivado for the actual place-and-route. It did result in a open gateware laptop running Linux and Xorg
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by mntmn 3y ago
This is not true, the panthor driver (previously pancsf) for mesa is actively being developed and funded, and already works quite well (I had a demo desktop running on prototye MNT Reform Next laptop at 37c3).
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by mntmn 3y ago
I've made 2 laptops in KiCAD: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform https://source.mnt.re/reform/pocket-reform
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Gprobe(zeromips.org)
8 points by mntmn 3y ago|0 comments
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by mntmn 4y ago
Thank you very much!
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by mntmn 4y ago
I feel you. High performance (for gaming, x64 emulation, stuff like Blender) is our next big topic. First, we wanted to establish a good foundation. Edit: clarification of "performance"
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by mntmn 4y ago
Simple: we are a tiny company and make this in little quantities, end-assembled in Berlin, Germany. The BOM is >$500 and we have to pay platform fees as well.
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by mntmn 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! If our campaign succeeds, we'll follow up with next-gen processor modules. After all, CPU/GPU/RAM is on an exchangeable module.
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MNT Reform review: Your DIY laptop fantasy is here at last(inputmag.com)
7 points by mntmn 5y ago|0 comments
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by mntmn 5y ago
Ha, I've seen that! Really cool project! The default part will be XC7K160T-FFG676, AFAIK it has some pin compatible family members as well.
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by mntmn 5y ago
Yes, the CPU/GPU (SoC) and RAM are together on a SODIMM-200-shaped module.
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by mntmn 5y ago
Keep in mind this is boutique hardware with very low volume, the device has a mechanical keyboard, and the case is milled and anodized aluminum. We are 3 people in the shop plus a network of freelancers. But unlike Apple, we can make open h
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by mntmn 5y ago
In the browser yes. I have not tried the desktop app because I prefer web apps for proprietary services.
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by mntmn 5y ago
Just to give some perspective, JS applications I'm using on a daily basis on MNT Reform: - GitLab - Mattermost - Telegram Web - Glowing Bear - CodiMD - Discourse - Mastodon - (Discord, not daily) - Youtube - Youtube Music I also use th
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by mntmn 5y ago
Sure, but that will still take a while.
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by mntmn 5y ago
One thing that doesn't come up here yet: our partners RBZ have developed an open hardware alternative SOM for MNT Reform based on NXP LS1028A with 2 Cortex-A72 cores and 8 or 16GB RAM. This is currently in the first bringup phase, but
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by mntmn 5y ago
Hi, we offer MNT Reform with a custom glass trackpad as well! You can even swap the trackpad and trackball modules, and we offer them separately if you want to try another one later: https://shop.mntmn.com/t/hardware&#x
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by mntmn 5y ago
Hi, mainline support is good in general, but we do have a few patches that are still being mainlined: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-system-image/-/tree/main... As we use (in the default, pluggable
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by mntmn 5y ago
Shameless plug: We're doing this with the MNT Reform laptop: https://mntre.com/reform2/handbook/schematics.html There's also a print version of this book that is included with the assembled version of th
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by mntmn 5y ago
The MNT Reform motherboard has 6 layers, which I consider a small number. Also, I was thinking about adopting MXM for a GPU slot.
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by mntmn 5y ago
I am thinking to adopt a SOM standard like Qseven or COMExpress etc. in the (a bit more far) future. What do you think about that? SBCs are not really a good fit for laptops in my opinion because you have to adapt everything with individual
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by mntmn 5y ago
Hi, I'm the project lead of MNT Reform, an open hardware laptop that just started shipping (link: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform )! We would be interested in an e-Ink experiment. During the initial prototyp
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by mntmn 6y ago
btw the original twtxt is https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
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by mntmn 6y ago
Nice inspirations, thank you!
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by mntmn 6y ago
Mind to share some good pasta sauce ideas?
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by mntmn 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback!
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by mntmn 6y ago
Points for creativity, but in my opinion this borders on rule-lawyering with not much benefit. The code that tells the ARM/M4 to load stuff from that SPI flash can be easily changed, it's in the bootloader, so it can change that c
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by mntmn 6y ago
Chromium tends to be a bit faster rendering wise, but there’s a new fix for etnaviv which allows smooth layer compositing in FF now as well. Javascript heavy apps and WebGL are faster in Chromium for me. I don’t have any reddit experience t

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