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They're selling an ancient laptop at a premium because they installed Coreboot. They haven't addressed any of the problems with proprietary firmwares or backdoo
by exarch 13y ago
They're selling an ancient laptop at a premium because they installed Coreboot. They haven't addressed any of the problems with proprietary firmwares or backdoored chips.
RMS has been recommending the Loongson Lemote for a long time, which would seem to be a much better choice. The Lemote's firmware and hardware is essentially all open source, including its MIPS CPU.
- jff 13y agoExtremely difficult to get a Lemote, though. I guess there's somewhere in the Netherlands that has them in stock. Shame the battery only lasts a couple hours.
- davexunit 13y agoThe company is Tekmote. http://www.tekmote.nl/ http://www.tekmote.nl/
- jff 13y ago$500 for the 10' model, which gets 1.5 hours out of the battery. This is laughable. When these were first announced, I wanted one badly. A cheap, MIPS-based laptop? Yes please. But you couldn't get one for a long time, and queries to the Chinese company were never answered. Now you can get one, but they're now out of date and too expensive.
- sliverstorm 13y ago200 quid really isn't so bad, and the X60 was one of the best laptops of the age. And it includes a brand new battery and the docking station. Hmm... I still have fond memories of my X61. This is actually kind of tempting.
- csmuk 13y agoDo it. I still use a T400 every day and have a T61 as a fallback. There's nothing like them out there.