I would keep an eye on EOMA68 project. I've bought a micro-desktop for crowdsourcing the idea.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Felix Posselt <felix_poss...@yahoo.de> wrote: > Im not sure if i found the Computer you are talking about, but i found a > Laptop with the name Lenovo ThinkPad P70 > > 1. The Bios won't be free. I guess you know. > 2. Your workstation seems to have a thunderbolt. I am not sure, but arent > these proprietary? > 3. Your Graphicscard has an official linux-driver (non-free) and it also > seems to have a free Linux driver > > All in all it seems to be able to run GNU/Linux > > The questions that remains is, why you would spend that much money on a > computer. > Unless you do some really extraordinary heavy work on that thing, or plan > to run a server for several thousand users, i don't know how a Computer of > that price range is going to have an advantage over some consumer high end > with an i7 6700K processor. > > If I found the wrong specs, please give us more details about the machine, > and maybe plans on using it. > > > ------------------------------ > *Von:* Andri Effendi <fusionman...@gmx.de> > *An:* libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > *Gesendet:* 16:30 Montag, 24.Oktober 2016 > *Betreff:* [libreplanet-discuss] Saving up for Laptop, Free Software > Discussion > > Hello All, > Just want to put this idea out there and question for discussion. > > I am setting this goal that with in the next 3 – 5 years I will have > $10,000 AUD saved up to buy a luxury laptop workstation. > > I want to save up for the absolute best computer that money can buy > because I want to have real computing power. :) > > The computer I am looking at is the Lenovo Think Pad P70, or its future > equivalent since I have to save up a lot of money first. > > I know that by the time that I have saved enough money, there will be a > different model available. > > Now what I want to ask you folks… > Assuming I have saved the money needed for this computer, will I be able > to run Trisquel or an equivalent fully Free Software OS on it? > > One thing that sits back in my mind is that WIFI will not work. > > I don’t want to be dreaming about buying a $10,000 computer if I won’t > be able to run Free Software on it. > > Does anyone have any suggestions or comments? > > Kind Regards, > -- > Andri Effendi <fusionman...@gmx.de> > Organiser of The Free Software Movement in Sydney > www.freesoftware.org.au/ > > GPG fingerprint: 8438 138D ECDA 05E0 591F F2B4 4721 0F03 AC24 DF73 > Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received > unencrypted. > >
