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2025-01-14 16:18:54

Christine Lemmer-Webber via {Insert Pasta Pun}

cwebber@social.coop

So several people asked me what I thought of the Framework laptops, since I kept bringing up the MNT Pocket Reform / MNT Reform Next recently.

Framework's laptops seem better than many other options on the market, but they don't excite me as much as MNT's stuff.

What MNT has going for it that Framework's doesn't:

- Actually open hardware
- Much, much more community oriented
- Designs feel oriented to long term view of repairable computing
- Built by a small shop of lovely queers

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2025-01-14 19:27:08

AstraLuma

astraluma@tacobelllabs.net

@zzt @noelle @cwebber @dynamic Prusa stings because they moved from very open to more closed.

Framework is still a market-acceptable repairable laptop--MNT is an enthusiast laptop. Framework's work is still notable, even if it doesn't go as far as we'd like.

2025-01-14 19:31:43

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zzt@mas.to

@astraluma @noelle @cwebber @dynamic I agree! that’s a very good summary of the situation.

2025-01-14 19:40:07

josch

josch@floss.social

@cwebber I'd like to echo this. There exist many great open hardware projects out there that you can clone and get manufactured yourself with your own modifications. There also exist many laptops for normal day-to-day tasks. To my knowledge, the MNT Reform is the only device that sits at the intersection of those two sets of devices. You can literally clone the whole device yourself. You cannot do that with a Framework.

(I too prefer a small shop of lovely queers over a venture capital firm)