It's that time of the month, folks. I feel like buying a replacement laptop, yet x86-grade power consumption and non-free BIOSes are quite a turn-down. Are there any cheap (under 600$), fast (comparable to, say, an Intel T3400), trustable (no binary blobs) laptop (screen size between 12 and 17 inches) computers out there? Availability of 6-cell battery also a requirement.
Probably not.
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faggot2012-09-01 5:53
Looks like there are three options now:
- Pay $1100 for a Lemote Yeeloong 8133 (unless the price magically changes when they put it on aliexpress, which is possible since their shitty 8089A netbook is listed on their website as being $378, yet the aliexpress listing says $194 -- what the fuck)
- Get a Lenovo X60s (around $150 on eBay), then put coreboot on it.
- Buy a Pandaboard ($170), a Chalkboard Electronics LCD LVDS adaptor + touchscreen LCD panel combo ($135), and a few 5V battery packs ($50) (because I'm too lazy to put together a 18650 controller), and a small keyboard ($15), and make a really ugly netbook for a total of $370. Alternatively, buy a larger 14 inch screen and make a laptop instead for about the same price. But I still don't know whether the Pandaboard boot process requires any evil closed-source bits.