<div dir="ltr">It's good that people are interested in building open hardware.<div>But the real barrier here is performance/price.<br>There are ARM CPUs with great performance, but they are super niche and expensive. </div><div>The cheapest Altra MAX (32-core) is $800US for the CPU alone ($5,800US for the 128-core), and there's no GPU in it.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 9:51 AM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> Ars Technica has a writeup on an open-source hardware laptop. It's <br>
> not pretty but....<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/review-mnt-reform-laptop-has-fully-open-hardware-and-software-for-better-or-worse/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/review-mnt-reform-laptop-has-fully-open-hardware-and-software-for-better-or-worse/</a><br>
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I like the phrase from one of the last scenes in "Don't look up": I'm <br>
grateful we tried.<br>
<br>
Then I am also reminded that once I did buy a handbag, for a girl, as a <br>
present, ... , ya, very, very expensive. Apple shouldn't be the only <br>
company selling expensive tech. I celebrate that there are people who <br>
crowd-funded this laptop.<br>
<br>
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