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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 fr…

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 f…

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…

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…

I've made 2 laptops in KiCAD: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform https://source.mnt.re/reform/pocket-reform

Thank you very much!

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 "perform…

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.

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.

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.

Yes, the CPU/GPU (SoC) and RAM are together on a SODIMM-200-shaped module.

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 …

In the browser yes. I have not tried the desktop app because I prefer web apps for proprietary services.

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 - (Disc…

Sure, but that will still take a while.

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 …

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 late…

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 …

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 …

The MNT Reform motherboard has 6 layers, which I consider a small number. Also, I was thinking about adopting MXM for a GPU slot.

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 …

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 exper…