"Most of the people who care about free software are programmers, and programmers need things this laptop doesn't have, namely modern specs and a great screen."

"Most of the people who care about free software are programmers, and programmers need things this laptop doesn't have, namely modern specs and a great screen." Mr Hess seems to do ok with a lowish spec netbook and more recently a Lenovo Arm based tablet convertable. Perhaps many programmers need high specification hard ware, but even rounding error would be a significant market for this operation.