Guys, I have a problem. I'm confessing this in the name of transparency, accountability, and openness.
I just can't stop thinking about the MNT Reform.
That chonkbook is the stuff of my dreams, and I can't figure out why. It's slower than my pinebook pro, but everything about it (other than processor power and battery life, probably, lol) is just amazing. :D
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@RL_Dane great to hear it! btw with A311D module, i think it could outperform the pinebook pro (but need to benchmark that)
Love it! Any work on the management processor slow battery bleed issue? I doubt I'll be able to afford one this go-around, but if I did I was thinking of jury-rigging a pretty crude-and-crazy shielded toggle switch for power cutoff, or maybe find some way to have something like a hidden switch that can be engaged with a pin to cut off power.
LOVE the design, and that trackball is GLORIOUS. I don't even like trackballs on my PCs, but it's so much better than a trackpad XD
@RL_Dane if you mean the undervolt issue, that is solved by the Protected Battery Boards, which are available as a drop-in replacement, but also standard in Reforms shipping now
Not certain, I just saw some videos saying that the batteries would bleed empty over several days in power-off state because the management processor was still running in an idle state (waiting for the keypresses to turn everything on, obviously).
That's why I was thinking some kind of battery kill switch would be a good hack. Something like a pin that could get inserted into the back or bottom to engage some kind of switch. I dunno, I'm not really an electronics guy, but I wish I knew more of it :D
I'll have to thank Forrest M. Mims III someday for his excellent 1980s hand-drawn Radio Shack electronics books for what little I *do* know.
Those books were amazingly good :)
@dheadshot @RL_Dane this problem is already solved by the Protected Battery Boards.