If I want to hack on Libreboot on a separate machine from my primary one, what's a good laptop to get? Are there laptops that are close to working but not on the HCL yet?
While I agree that most BIOS and/or UEFI installations are just... unacceptable, I don't think that a replacement will do just fine. The initialisation process should be as streamlined as possible, but allow as much control as possible. I would not call a multi-staged boot process "streamlined", when you argue that coreboot is the fastest way to boot up a computer. And then again, the whole process is repeated by the operating system one way or another. Anyways, I'm glad that coreboot exists regarding the UEFI fuckups in the recent past, but I don't think it's the way to go further.<p>Oh, and, the <i>free</i> in libreBoot is just cosmetics, so I <i>shrug</i>, whatever.
I was reading about buying a laptop with libreboot bootloader but then I saw a whole section to screw paywall.<p><a href="https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/" rel="nofollow">https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/</a><p><a href="https://minifree.org/paypal/" rel="nofollow">https://minifree.org/paypal/</a><p>Their laptops are cheap and with good configuration except for CPU and graphics card. I will have hard time running Matlab on such a machine, so I cannot make that investment. Better CPU please especially when your laptop is 2.2 kg in weight.