 MNT Pocket Reform is coming! Here are all the technical details that are nailed down so far: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt-pocket-reform.html You can also sign up for email updates on the project at the end of the page. Ana Dantas returned for industrial design. The snazzy 3D art was done by Philipp Broemme. Illustrations by Anri Hennies.
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@mntmn I'd love to get one. Unfortunately too expensive for me. But definitely the best laptop made in the last decade in terms of hardware and firmware (no proprietary BIOS nor Intel ME).  D-1 specs (subject to change): - M.2 key B (WWAN) Linux running on RISC-V on MNT RKX7! A completely* open computer down to the CPU gateware. * the only wart is that it needs Vivado's synthesize/place+route tools to build the gateware source for Kintex-7  @mntmn how you can make laptop built around SoM even more awesome? Make a SoM with damn FPGA.
hard to describe this feeling! enjoy digital (LiteX) made a bitfile for MNT RKX7 and i loaded it into the FPGA and it just works! it's real: the first assembled MNT RKX7. an open hardware kintex-7 fpga SoM with many peripherals for MNT Reform (or other projects). |
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@mntmn ooooh π β¦ want!
@mntmn I don't think I see this on the KiCAD render you put in the blog post so I'll remark here: it would be extremely helpful for repairability purposes to put the USB-C ports (and especially the one that is power delivery) on a daughterboard or some other easily replaceable medium we could buy spares of
Source for my feedback: my phone currently only **barely** grips a charging cable because I got stuff jammed deep into the port, and it's not feasible to source replacement USB-C ports for it
@mntmn Looks great - signed up!