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What specific features are we talking about that require Coreboot ? This feels like a really odd niche to me. Users who want Linux, but don't want to do the w
by 999900000999 2y ago
What specific features are we talking about that require Coreboot ?
This feels like a really odd niche to me.
Users who want Linux, but don't want to do the work to install it ?
I think I see your point though.
Here's a Clevo for 900$, which is 300 less than System 76's cheapest model.
https://xoticpc.com/collections/sager-clevo-laptops/products/sager-np3540u-clevo-v540tu1 https://xoticpc.com/collections/sager-clevo-laptops/products...
- 6SixTy 2y agoSomething to do with free software everything, not features that Coreboot provides that a standard InsydeH2O UEFI BIOS doesn't have. I don't quite get it myself, and it is quite a niche, but some people care more about it more than others. A very small amount of people. There's great risk installing such a thing yourself, as you can end up bricking your laptop with very little recourse than to break out a soldering iron. Or if you don't do your homework carefully, end up with a half functioning PC because things like display brightness and audio apparently require driver binaries within UEFI that need to be there to work. That is a Clevo laptop, but many vendors do use their models and don't advertise as such. Gigabyte, for example, uses Clevo for their bottom tier models with no special marketing name. I don't doubt that their other models are Clevo, but I can tell that those ones are.