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>Most of the people who care about free software are programmers, and programmers need things this laptop doesn't have... The hardware is a bit antiquated, yes

>Most of the people who care about free software are programmers, and programmers need things this laptop doesn't have... The hardware is a bit antiquated, yes, but it's a step in the right direction. There are a good amount of programmers who care about freedom that are using Lemote laptops as their primary computers. So, I think that the Thinkpad X60s is certainly an improvement from a more practical standpoint. >Give me a laptop... If you really want freedom, you'll work for it and sacrifice some convenience instead of waiting around for someone to do all of the work for you. Personally, I made a bit of a compromise and use a Thinkpad X220 with a hacked version of the proprietary BIOS so that I could replace the wireless chip with a free software friendly one.

reirob 13y ago
I have a X220t and Linux runs great on it. Why did you have to use a hacked BIOS? What advantages does this BIOS give to you?
- clarry 13y ago
  At least some laptop BIOSes have a whitelist (or was it a blacklist?) of approved wireless chips. So to choose your own, you'd have to get around that.
- davexunit 13y ago
  The BIOS includes a whitelist for which PCIe cards can be put it in the slot that the wireless chip is in. Intel wireless chips require nonfree firmware to be loaded into them in order to function. I replaced this with an Atheros chip that does not have this problem. In order for the chip to not be rejected, I had to flash a hacked BIOS that removed the whitelist.