Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-12 Thread James A. Robinson
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:12 PM Harri Haataja wrote: > https://puri.sm/learn/blobs/ Indeed, blobs seems to be one point. > > Another thing seems to be that they advertise that these laptops > have no hidden features or remote control. How they could claim to > guarantee

Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-12 Thread Harri Haataja
On 12 November 2016 at 21:22, James A. Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:19 AM, > Andrés Domínguez wrote: >> Do they really make open hardware? In what aspect >> is their hardware more open than any other laptop? > > A summary would bet hat

Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-12 Thread James A. Robinson
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Andrés Domínguez wrote: > D​​o they really make open hardware? In what aspect > is their hardware more open than any other laptop? Hi, A summary would bet hat typically the hardware drivers that are run on a computer come in two possible

Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-12 Thread Andrés Domínguez
2016-11-11 19:51 GMT+01:00 James A. Robinson : > Have folks seen https://puri.sm/ ? Their description of how they are trying > to put together "open" hardware (not 100% there yet) Do they really make open hardware? In what aspect is their hardware more open than any other

Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-11 Thread James A. Robinson
No, although I imagine you could just buy upgrade parts separately and put them in yourself. They appear to have designed the laptop to make it fairly easy to open up to add your own parts. What really disappoints me is how they are backordered for 1-2 months on the 13" and 6-7 months on the

Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-11 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
Those things really aren't cheap, are they... On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:51 PM, James A. Robinson wrote: > Have folks seen https://puri.sm/ ? Their description of how they are > trying > to put together "open" hardware (not 100% there yet) makes me wonder if > it'd be

Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-11 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 11 November 2016 at 18:51, James A. Robinson wrote: > Have folks seen https://puri.sm/ ? Their description of how they are > trying > t > They look quite nice

[9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-11 Thread James A. Robinson
Have folks seen https://puri.sm/ ? Their description of how they are trying to put together "open" hardware (not 100% there yet) makes me wonder if it'd be open enough w/re to hardware specs to make it a target for Plan 9 porting/support. Jim