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Maybe https://www.ifixit.com/News/94927/how-open-hardware-empowers-users https://www.ifixit.com/News/94927/how-open-hardware-empowers... helps to get how it's d
by utopiah 6mo ago
Maybe https://www.ifixit.com/News/94927/how-open-hardware-empowers-users https://www.ifixit.com/News/94927/how-open-hardware-empowers... helps to get how it's different than "just" getting older hardware that had good repairability scores (indeed like ThinkPabs,cf https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/laptop-repairability-scores https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/laptop-repairability-sc... ) namely that the idea isn't to "hijack" a locked-down supply chain and get cheap parts assembled anywhere. Rather it's to challenge that supply chain and open it up, which is indeed going to be expensive, maybe even environmentally wasteful (to clarify IMHO) at first but then long term will radically improve the situation.
- whateverboat 6mo agoHow are they better than framework? Looks a worse product for much higher prices.
- F3nd0 6mo agoMNT is entirely open hardware and much more free-software-friendly, right? If you care about stuff like freedom and autonomy in computing, and you have the money to spend, the Reform seems like a far better product to me.
- ghighi7878 6mo agoWhat part of framework is less open than MNT?
- seba_dos1 6mo agoFramework is perhaps well-documented, but it's not open. There are only pinouts, partial schematics and some MCAD stuff published for extension development but no ECAD designs.
- chmod775 6mo agoLots of components from third parties, starting with the processors they use (Intel/AMD vs ARM processors). Framwork is usability and performance first, openness second. MNT is the other way around.
- jogu 6mo agoMNT publishes everything: source code, schematics, complete BOMs, mechanical design files. You could produce one of their laptops, or any part of it, yourself through normal PCB suppliers like JLC and 3d print a case. Reproducing what they have aside, you can also modify any aspect of it by remixing their designs. The most common example of this has been custom keyboard layouts (ergo, split, etc).
- negura 6mo agoframework doesn't open source their firmware. despite major demand from their community [0]. they're the only ones among major manufacturers of linux-ready laptops (novacustom, starbook, system76) who haven't bothered to do it. i consider framework to be driven by marketing more than values or honesty [0] https://community.frame.work/t/responded-coreboot-on-the-framework-laptop/791 https://community.frame.work/t/responded-coreboot-on-the-fra...
- ktallett 6mo agoI can rebuild my Pocket reform as I choose in full. I can't with the framework I have.