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MNT Research GmbH
Company blog · mntmn.comhardwaresystems
MNT Research GmbH is the company blog at mntmn.com, writing about hardware and systems. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “A Status Update on the MNT Reform DIY Laptop”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link mntmn.com as the home of the MNT Reform, an open-source DIY laptop project, and its status updates on the beta unit and hardware plans. The comments only point to the project; none judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
MNT Research makes open source hardware laptops, mobile devices and keyboards that are modular and repairable. Designed and assembled in Berlin, EU.
Most-linked posts?
- /reform/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-02-01
- A Status Update on the MNT Reform DIY Laptop3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-14
- MNT Reform: A free and open source modular laptop2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-25
What Hacker News says?
I love stuff like this. We made a whole laptop in this spirit, with a custom USB keyboard, optical trackball, motherboard and 3d printed/cnc milled case, also with KiCAD: https://mntmn.com/media/news_md/2019-01-14-status_update_on_...
Comment linking /media/news_md/2019-01-14-status_update_on_reform.html
on “Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch”Submitted My deadly disease was just a 23andme bug as a story · 516 points
HN discussionHere is a recent status update with pictures of the beta unit: https://mntmn.com/media/news_md/2019-01-14-status_update_on_...
Comment linking /media/news_md/2019-01-14-status_update_on_reform.html
on “A small notebook for a system administrator”Submitted MNT Reform: DIY portable computer as a story · 199 points
HN discussionI recently came across this cool DYI laptop that is in the works: http://mntmn.com/reform/ It doesn't fit exactly with the OP's needs but it comes pretty close I think.
Comment linking /reform/
on “A small notebook for a system administrator”Submitted Hipster Linux as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI feel you. This guy is working on an interesting project called the Reform laptop [1]. You might have seen this already. He will eventually have it run his own lisp (called "Interim") all the way down. [1] http://mntmn.com/reform/
Comment linking /reform/
on “Why Create a New Unix Shell?”Submitted A Status Update on the MNT Reform DIY Laptop as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI'm also working on an ARM notebook in the spirit of Novena called Reform: http://mntmn.com/reform/ This version is 32-bit, but it has 4 cores @ 1.2GHz and 4GB of RAM. Also, it is actually open source, meaning that all the electronic design files (made in KiCAD) are available on GitHub and as soon as we have decided on the correct formats the same will be true for the mechanical/case parts, so you will be even able…
Comment linking /reform/
on “Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Notebook”Submitted Re-Introducing Reform DIY Laptop as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.mntmn.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-mo...
Comment linking /media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html
on “4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U”Submitted MNT Reform: A free and open source modular laptop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi. Original author of that article here. I decided to finally translate the article to english: http://mntmn.com/pages/23andme.html
Comment linking /pages/23andme.html
on “FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe”Submitted Reform (open source DIY ARM laptop) beta kit available for limited pre-order as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe MNT reform is looking to have it's initial ARM SoC be replacable with a RISC-V one at a later point. [1] [1] https://mntmn.com/media/news_md/2019-05-20-reintroducing-ref...
Comment linking /media/news_md/2019-05-20-reintroducing-reform.html
on “Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld”Submitted Finishing Reform as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> This is better served by a laptop for the majority of people, though as someone that uses an unconventional keyboard anyway, a laptop is somewhat less compelling (since it occupies a lot of space with a keyboard that I actively avoid using), I can certainly see the appeal of a tablet for that purpose. I've switched to an Ergodox in early 2019 and I couldn't use a laptop since. MNT[1] is the only laptop manufacture…
Comment linking /media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt-pocket-reform.html
on “I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2”Submitted Classic Amiga: MNT VA2000 Drivers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's also "ARM9" in the "fake amazon" pic from the article: http://mntmn.com/reform/photos/fakeamazon.png
Comment linking /reform/photos/fakeamazon.png
on “MNT Reform: DIY portable computer”It's not the latest and greatest, but the MNT Reform[1] uses an i.MX6QP. [1] https://mntmn.com/reform/
Comment linking /reform/
on “Pine64 is Working on a Linux Smartphone Running KDE Plasma”Looks like vapor. The MNT Reform 2 [0] already exists, shares common goals, and is entirely compatible with a future risc-v SoM with its modular design. [0] https://mntmn.com/reform
Comment linking /reform
on “Balthazar Personal Computing Device, a 13” RISC-V laptop”Good! I switched to Debian Linux on my Retina MBP about 4 months ago fulltime and after a few weeks of twiddling and fiddling it's super fun, fast and nice. I'm really enjoying it. I normalized all the keyboard shortcuts using several methods, the most important one is to switch Cmd and Ctrl keys. I documented that here: http://mntmn.com/Hipster%20Linux#keyboard-cmd-ctrl-copypaste... I use Terminator for Terminal an…
Comment linking /Hipster%20Linux
on “Ask HN: Switching from OS X to Linux”I feel you man. There is a guy working on his own "open source" laptop, and his eventual goal is to have it run lisp all the way down: http://mntmn.com/reform/
Comment linking /reform/
on “Gruber on the Macbook Pro Keyboard”I'm using Debian on a Retina MacBook Pro 13" with very similar specs for some months now with Xfce and my own HiDPI theme and it works very well. Here's some documentation on it: http://mntmn.com/Hipster%20Linux
Comment linking /Hipster%20Linux
on “Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review”I’ve plugged the upcoming MNT Reform before, but I know you’re looking for BSD and not Debian. https://mntmn.com/reform/
Comment linking /reform/
on “Ask HN: Recommend a decent ARM Laptop to run Free/OpenBSD?”> Do you even realize how weird this statement is? A "non-open" platform (is this Apple's marketing speech for closed platform?) is in fact "non-open" [...] You're attacking my phrasing, rather than the argument. > even if it claims to be "less non-open" [sic] than something else. Apple never claimed anything here. No aspect of how open/closed the platform is is a part of their marketing, or any other official state…
Comment linking /
on “NixOS on M1”
