Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Steven R. Baker
On 30/04/17 21:58, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > On 30/04/17 20:59, Steven R. Baker wrote: >> >> On 30/04/17 20:05, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> On 30/04/17 17:00, Steven R. Baker wrote: I've spent a lot of time thinking about this lately. My next machine will be a Purism Librem, I think. But

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Nico Rikken
Hi Daniel, Like you I'm also on the lookout for a replacement, especially for my dayjob as a developer. I need decent performance to run all the Docker containers with JVM processes, combined with the battery-life that can last me a large part of a day filled with meetings. For personal usage my

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/04/17 20:59, Steven R. Baker wrote: > > > On 30/04/17 20:05, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> On 30/04/17 17:00, Steven R. Baker wrote: >>> I've spent a lot of time thinking about this lately. My next machine >>> will be a Purism Librem, I think. But I've been a life-long fan of >>> ThinkPads.

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Nikos Roussos
> - am I going to run into Secure Boot issues? I've met other people at > events recently who had new laptops and were struggling to get into the > BIOS and disable Secure Boot. I don't think that's an issue anymore. I run Fedora on my x250 with UEFI boot + Secure boot without any problem.

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Heiki Lõhmus
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 08:05:39PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Even if some of the vPro stuff is hard to avoid, can ThinkPad be ordered > without vPro or can it be sufficiently disabled? Pick a network card without vPro support. I had to go with Broadcom instead of Intel to avoid vPro, which I

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread amunizp
El 30 de abril de 2017 17:11:09 GMT+01:00, "Steven R. Baker" escribió: > >> I'd like to start by warning against purchasing any product from >> Purism. They have consistently misled and profited off the backs of >> the free software movement, without giving much back at

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Franz Seidl
Hi Daniel and list, I'm in the same situation: Aging X220t that will need a replacement sooner or later. This one [1] is my favorite candidate as of now. Tuxedo has other models as well. I have never held one in my hands, though. A computer- and linux-competent acquaintance of mine bought a

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/04/17 17:00, Steven R. Baker wrote: > I've spent a lot of time thinking about this lately. My next machine > will be a Purism Librem, I think. But I've been a life-long fan of > ThinkPads. I currently have a W550s, an X250, and an X1 Carbon. Cannot > recommend enough. > I've also been on

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Heiki Lõhmus
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:52:22AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > - am I going to run into Secure Boot issues? I've met other people at > events recently who had new laptops and were struggling to get into the > BIOS and disable Secure Boot. I have a recent Thinkpad (T460p from 2016). Secure boot

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Steven R. Baker
> I'd like to start by warning against purchasing any product from > Purism. They have consistently misled and profited off the backs of > the free software movement, without giving much back at all. Their > marketing material made many high claims - that they would be able to > run Coreboot,

Re: ideas for laptop selection

2017-04-30 Thread Duncan Guthrie
Dear all, I'd like to start by warning against purchasing any product from Purism. They have consistently misled and profited off the backs of the free software movement, without giving much back at all. Their marketing material made many high claims - that they would be able to run