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 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
