Re: [coreboot] BadBIOS Thoughts

[Alex]

On 11/04/2013 12:35 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> what is it you intend to use it for?

All-day round laptop.
Research (Calculations, Scilab/Maxima stuff).
Having something to work on while on the bus.
Running KDE with fancy graphics.
Maybe some gaming (Nexuiz/Xonotic)
> what's your budget?

$600 to $1000. It's not a hard limit.
> ron

Alex

BadBIOS Thoughts

[Peter Stuge]

Alex wrote:
> > what's your budget?
>
> $600 to $1000. It's not a hard limit.

The Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro screen looks nice. 3200x1800 at 13.3".

Someone enterprising with some time on their hands might be able to
make a port.

//Peter

BadBIOS Thoughts

[Alex]

On 11/04/2013 06:22 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> The Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro screen looks nice. 3200x1800 at 13.3".
>
> Someone enterprising with some time on their hands might be able to
> make a port.

The whole idea of buying a Chromebook is to get something that has 
coreboot from the factory, to show that we want libre firmware. If we 
buy something to port to coreboot, it defeats the purpose. The message 
dies with the purchase.

Alex

BadBIOS Thoughts

[ron minnich]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Alex  wrote:
> The whole idea of buying a Chromebook is to get something that has coreboot
> from the factory, to show that we want libre firmware. If we buy something
> to port to coreboot, it defeats the purpose. The message dies with the
> purchase.

yep.

ron