Hi
http://minifree.org/product-category/laptops/
I was looking at the website gnu.org and i seen this laptops as one of the
recommended 100% FREEDOM hardware.
Now what i found online is that CPU,GPU and all other components are old,and
some people say that those laptops are actually rip OFFS of lenovo laptops.
I started to do deeper research and i seen that these laptops are completely
cracked down,their hardware unlocked 100%.
Now what weird to me is where they get hardware from?Are they running their
own manufacturing,or are they old lenovo laptops that were took long time ago
and never sold out,and now they are being sold as libre laptops???
When it comes to these kind of websites,old look does not mean anything,and i
am trying to grasp what is actually happening here.
I didnt contacted official sellers yet,i am planning doing so,and i seen that
a lot of people here have these laptops so if they could provide more
info,that would be great.
PS:
I guess that OS like trisquel are actually made for this kind of
hardware,because i tried it on my new laptop(2013 manufacturing year,one of
the first Richland based AMDs APU with R7 M260 graphics)and my graphics card
performance on both GPU and APU was 5% which is disaster.
Now seeing newest ubuntu LTS 14.04.3,and its drivers that are great,hardware
accelerated,openGL performance works the same as on windows ,closedsource are
faster to be honest,much more,and even better performance on openGL rendering
with Ubuntu than on WIndows,but they have some bugs and were causing my
laptop to freeze at random so i decided to keep free drivers.
Now seeing this not available in trisquel at all,even if its free,i am
interested in buying some supported hardware,but i dont want to buy old peace
of crap that is sitting on some shelf for 8 years.
I get that model itself is old,but is actual manufacturing of those
components finished long time ago,or this is new manufactured hardware ready
to be sold as a piece of freedom hardware for freedom software???
Regards
