> The Pocket Reform uses a USB-C PD power supply to recharge the batteries. I did not have any luck charging with my phone’s USB-C charger or the official Raspberry Pi USB-C power supply I had on hand.<p>Sounds like it needs a minimum power level to use the charger? That's annoying; having worked with machines that do it both ways, I really strongly prefer machines that let you at least trickle charge with anything you have handy. Hopefully firmware improvements can fix?
Looked like a nice machine until I saw the keyboard. What's with the ridiculous gaps between the keys? That's not just this machine, but many other laptops have gone this route in the past few years. The picture with the 3 laptops shows it clearly: the Reform has 60 keys, the eeePC has 80 keys in nearly the same amount of space, and the ThinkPad has 83 keys in a considerably wider space. Moreover, the latter two have reasonably standard layouts.
I was interested in these for the FPGA boards (you could replace the CPU carrier card with an FPGA board and write your own system), but they came in at €1600 for the smaller Kintex 7 and €2600 for the larger one - a complete nonstarter.
iFixit did a teardown video the other day: <a href="https://youtu.be/QdZoK3MfV28" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/QdZoK3MfV28</a>