@mntmn Do you find the glossy screen hard to use at all? This past week I was doing some stuff outside on my Macbook with a glossy screen, and (aside from it being too bright) the glossy screen caused some readability issues.
@mntmn nice! One thing through... the keyboard on these kind of machines is always to compact to include local letters for languages like Danish, making them close to useless (there's an Γ₯ next to Γ and æø next to L on my keyboard). So, please, just one more column of keys..
recently prof. dr.-ing. volker roth (fu berlin) bumped into me and told me he has 3 urgent research job offers around open-source secure phone development using parallax propeller chips (electronics, cryptography, low level programming, dsp, hci, ...). for more info grep "sitel" here and i also have a PDF and text file: https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/english/index.html
quick test of MNT Pocket Reform trackball with POM ball. looks good! keycaps are a mix of 3d printed+spraypainted and some injection mold samples (white).
an MNT Reform customer in the US was able to get an industrial repair company to fix their damaged laptop on the board level independently using only the public documentation for <$280.
@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 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).
- M.2 key B (WWAN) - M.2 key M (NVMe) - MicroSD - Micro HDMI - 1x USB 3 Type C with PD - 1x USB 3 Type C - 1GbE via ix Industrial port - MIPI-DSI interface - Mono speaker and MEMS mic - RP2040 controller - Works with MNT Reform CPU modules, CM4
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