It seems like a different flavor of an open source laptop that people who want a better keyboard and has the option of a trackball (!!!) instead of the trackpad.
I think the MNT is going to be my next laptop, but the Frame.work is pretty cool.
The mnt is far more open as well, but there's no comparison in the performance department... you'd have to treat the mnt more like a very underpowered, memory-constrained netbook.
Maybe, at least that era of Core 2 Duo thinkpads supported 8G of RAM...
I was in a similar boat until last year when I switched from a modded x61s to an x220 i7 then x230 i7 w/16GB which I'm still using and cost under $300 on ebay. The HD4000 iGPU is at least Vulkan capable.
It's really unfortunate the imx8 SoC didn't have even an 8GB variant. The fact that you can get a raspberry pi with more memory than the Reform is such a bummer.
Other people on this site have recommended the MNT Reform to me: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform
It seems like a different flavor of an open source laptop that people who want a better keyboard and has the option of a trackball (!!!) instead of the trackpad.
I think the MNT is going to be my next laptop, but the Frame.work is pretty cool.