[IAEP] Which cheap 2016 Laptop should be our reference?

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

> Quoting Walter Bender (2016-06-22 16:33:15)
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Sebastian Silva
> >> <sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
> >>> I wouldn't dismiss the Raspberry Pi 3 or similar single board
> >>> computer
> >>
> >> Around the time RPi hit the million unit mark I floated the idea of a
> >> Sugar-branded enclosure for it, distributed through the RPi partner
> >> network.
> >
> > The problem at the time was that the Sugar experience on RPi was
> > pretty terrible. I suspect it is pretty decent on the newer models. Do
> > we know?
>
> Performance of RPi3 is decent.
>
> It comes as a board, so addition of screen and keyboard, with the
> distribution and support burden that inolves, should be accounted for.
>
> The price of RPi is comparable to boards based on Allwinner A20 SoC,
> where a notable difference is that A20 boards can run Debian, whereas
> RPi requires a non-free blob to even boot¹.
>
> You may not consider Debian and the definition of Software freedoms that
> it represents crucial for your promotion of Sugar - I just mention as a
> data point.
>

I had not realized about the non-free blob for RPi. No reason to go down
that path if there are free alternatives. Thanks for the heads up.

>
>
>  - Jonas
>
>
> ¹ Yes, Debian + some non-free parts work, but that is not Debian.
>
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