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Have you seen the MNT Reform? https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-th

Have you seen the MNT Reform? https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p... It's not as powerful as most modern laptops (uses an iMX8 SOM, rather than an x86 CPU), but it's got a full keyboard, trackball (!), replaceable batteries, etc.

aww_dang 6y ago
This deserves a discussion on the front page.
- dTal 6y ago
  Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141667
- Lex-2008 6y ago
  someone posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24034502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24034502
acqq 6y ago
For anybody like me who didn't know: the mentioned iMX8 is NXP's "i.MX 8M Family - Arm® Cortex®-A53, Cortex-M4, Audio, Voice, Video" https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers/arm-processors/i-mx-applications-processors/i-mx-8-processors/i-mx-8m-family-armcortex-a53-cortex-m4-audio-voice-video:i.MX8M https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers... And: "i.MX8M has four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 cores, an additional Cortex-M4F core, faster PCIe, USB3.0, a better GPU, and much higher memory bandwidth." https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2019-05-20-reintroducing-reform.html https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2019-05-20-reintroducing-r...
ajford 6y ago
It sounds pretty cool, but that keyboard layout looks atrocious.