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FWIW I was all in on apple until I bought a brand new top of the line MBP in 2016, only to have it crap out on me a couple years later due to flexgate. Apple wanted me to pay something like $800 for a new screen due to their design flaws on a super small cable.

Clearly I'm biased, but the price for a new top of the line MNT laptop isn't bad comparatively at ~1,500 USD. Assuming you can wait a half a year to get one... On the keyboard comment, I have to say I find it quite easy to use. The only real difference is the split space bar, alt, and ctrl keys.

Would love to see a followup review on your channel whenever they get around to releasing the MNT Reform Next which should be much slimmer and faster. To your credit though, it's definitely for people who are willing to tinker. Simple things you'd expect to work like plugging in an external monitor don't work out of the box.