Paul van der Vlis <[email protected]>, Sun 2014-11-23 23:06: > https://bryanquigley.com/uncategorized/would-you-crowdfund-a-500-ubunt > u-open-to-the-core-laptop
I don't get this point: ""quote -- - 128 GB SSD (this would be the one component that might have to be proprietary as I’m not aware of another option) -- "" Don't notebook SSDs appear as standerdised SATA disks these days? I've never experienced any trouble with this class of device. Could imagine that the internal ROM firmware is proprietary, but this should be the case for a lot of the components (even when the loadable part of the firmware is free). The specs are not high end. In this vicinity I could also recommend some of the contemporary Chromebooks. Most of them run with coreboot by default. The hardware of some models[1] runs out of the box with 100% Free distros. The processors are similar to the Intel Core series, but usually branded as Intel Pentium or intel Celeron, those names take some getting used to. Wikipedia has a very useful ressource[1] in this regard. Just stay away from the ARM Chromebooks, they depend on proprietary graphic acceleration (the unaccelerated graphics delivered by the Free driver isn't worth your money). [1]Using the Acer C720 myself, but the specs are lower than the proposed notebook [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_microprocessors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intel_celeron_microprocessors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors -- Paul Hänsch █▉ Webmaster, System-Hacker █▉█▉█▉ Jabber: [email protected] ▉▉ Free Software Foundation Europe
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