Hi all, I'm looking around for lightweight laptops that are freedom-friendly, and I wondered if anyone here has already explored this (which is why I'm posting here).
I'm have considered a ThinkPenguin laptop, but besides the Royal Penguin, these are a little too heavy for me, as I will be carrying it around a lot. The Royal Penguin is still on my list, as it is reasonably lightweight, has relatively good specs and I trust it will work with Trisquel 100%. I was looking at the Chromebook computers, and this computer caught my eye: http://www.harveynorman.com.au/acer-chromebook.html The specs aren't fantastic, but should be okay for what I need. - It's 1.4kg - it has 2GB RAM (which is slightly limiting, but I can work with that) - ~4 hrs battery life - a Celeron 1.1GHz processor (I don't know how slow this will be...) - 320GB 5400rpm HDD - It apparently uses HDCP :-( - Supports coreboot - No treacherous computing or vPro according to Intel.com :-) - Not sure what Wifi card it has. I already have a free software friendly Atheros PCIe chip, which I'm *hoping* I would be able to use in this computer (I haven't looked into this yet) There are also the Lemote Yeeloong laptops, but according to mtjm's review the 8101B only works for ~2hrs on battery. I'm unsure of what the availability of the Yeeloong is like, software compatibility might be a problem (I can't run Trisquel), there is no 3D support, no 802.11n, noisy fan, and it has only 1GB RAM. Has anyone else had any success in finding a good lightweight laptop before? Any insight would be appreciated. :-) Andrew.
