This laptop is modular, open source, ortholinear, moddable, and you can 3D print your own parts for it. We wish more gaming laptops were like that.
Forget what you know about gaming laptops and instead take a look at this mini laptop from German designer MNT. This is the Pocket Reform, and it throws out the rulebook for laptop design and forges a new path; it's moddable, open source, recyclable, eco-friendly, and entirely adorable.
There are a lot of things I like about this laptop but most of all that it appears to entirely do away with the idea that a laptop isn't upgradeable. Sure on a modern gaming laptop you can probably swap the SSD and RAM, but with the Pocket Reform you can entirely swap out its innards. You can even 3D print new parts, including a new case, if you want. It's entirely open to interpretation and innovation.in that way, which is another modular laptop trying to open up the portable platform.
These processor modules all come with RAM attached but can be swapped out in a pinch. The source code for all the parts is also available, if required. Of course, you're not going to get much PC gaming done on a machine with no discrete GPU or high-performance parts, but perhaps there's some scope for retro emulation gaming on the go.
The Pocket Reform comes with a screen that's only 7-inches across diagonally. Though that runs at a 1080p resolution, which makes for a fairly high pixel pitch of 310 ppi. If you're after something bigger, there is the MNT Reform, which is a 12.5-inch device. Still not massive, but a little more traditional in size than the Pocket. You can actually use the MNT Reform's processor modules within the 7-inch Pocket, which is pretty neat.
Yet this mini laptop's neatest trick, at least to a fan of clacky keyboards like myself, is that the onboard mechanical keyboard is in an ortholinear layout. All the buttons are lined up vertically for ergonomic typing, and once you get used to the layout it's an absolute dream to type on.
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