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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Samuel Greenfeld (2016-06-23 01:10:53)
> I am going to take the unpopular stance here and say if all you are 
> willing to support is a computer which requires no binary blobs, you 
> are going to support no computer at all.

Seems you misread my mail, then: I explicitly do not talk about "at all" 
but "not even boot":

> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>> I think the situation has changed?  Can't the rpi3 run mainline 
>>> kernel?
>>
>> No, it cannot *boot* without non-free blobs!
>>
>> No ARM devices can do 3D graphics without non-free blobs, but the RPi 
>> boards are particularly bad in that the 3D graphics is hardwired to 
>> the bootup process.

Regards,

 - Jonas

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