On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 01:56:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> 
> As my next music playback machine I may even use such a Pine64. As anything 
> from ThinkPad X240 and upwards appears to be "protected" by Intel Boot Guard 
> Verified Boot crap, instead of just offering the Measured Boot feature for 
> those who want it. Or I go with a ThinkPad X230 where it appears that Intel 
> ME 
> cleaner can do its work. May still be better the Pine64 appears to be a tad 
> bit limited especially by memory, although for music playback it would be 
> enough if expanded with a large MicroSD card. And it would have the advantage 
> that I would not have to mess with removing crap as it does not appear to 
> have 
> crap inside. And cheaper too.
> 
> Other alternative may be a Chromebook if I can rid it easily enough of Chrome 
> OS and install my distro of choice on it.

You might consider the Purism laptops, one of which has a detachable 
keyboard.  https://puri.sm/products/

I don't know if price/performance and the set of I/O ports are in 
your range, though.

-- hendrik

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