MNT Reform Standalone Keyboard Swap?

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I just received one of the new MNT Reforms — ordered maybe two years ago with an A311D, but shipped with RK3588 and Motherboard 3.0! Well worth the wait; this thing is beautiful.

Anyway, the keyboard came with choc brown switches. These are fine, but I prefer the whites (my glove80 has whites). If I order the standalone MNT Reform Keyboard 4.0 with the white switches, would I be able to “just”:

  1. pop the board out of MNT Keyboard and into my MNT Reform, and
  2. pop the board out of MNT Reform and into MNT Keyboard housing?

Looking at the schematics this full-board swap seems easy, but I want to double-check because I’m not great at hardware stuff. I know that soldering heroes can swap the keyswitches on the board themselves, but that would be a very challenging project for me.

…then I would have an auxiliary “quiet keyboard” that is actually pleasant to type on.

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The keyboard has a dip switch which puts it into standalone or in laptop-mode. You have to flip that switch.

The firmware is also specific to being laptop-only or standalone. You would have to flash the right firmware.

But other than that, yes you can put the pcb of the standalone keyboard into a classic reform laptop. :slight_smile:

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