MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case

Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job

MNT is launching the Station, a miniature desktop case for motherboards that come from its Reform open-source laptop. If you upgraded the laptop, you can now give your old motherboard a new life.

The MNT Station is very pricey for a case at $299. That’s not a complete computer – it is just the case for an existing motherboard from its Reform laptop line, which itself goes for $429. Then again, MNT’s Reform laptops are very much not ordinary laptops.

The company describes the original MNT Reform as “the ultimate open hardware laptop”. It’s a modular, repairable, replaceable and upgradable machine, complete with extensive documentation. The first model was launched in 2019 and The Register mentioned it when discussing the optional OLKB ortholinear keyboard in 2021.

Today, MNT offers several Arm processor options across the Reform family, including a Quasar...

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