I'm not sure at the moment. It really depends on a number of factors. The
laptop JUST got refreshed. It was using DDR2 ram and limited to 2GB. The new
one supports up to 4GB. You have to realise our target audience here isn't
after a high powered notebook. They just want something that works (no
viruses, etc). We do have the Penguin Air Pro though for those who are after
a similar (although not as cute) notebook which is more powerful.
No, coreboot can't be supported at the moment. The problem is that it is a
non-trivial task to port it. It has to be done for each laptop individually
and slight changes in models can be a problem. We would need to be selling a
significant number of any particular laptop in one go to really make it
feasible (any large organisations looking?).
There have been three or four laptops that have had coreboot ported to them.
One was not free software friendly and may have actually had digital
restrictions built into it. I suppose after coreboot was installed that would
no longer be the case although the graphics chipset would still have been a
problem.
Another was for a government I believe or sponsored by such. I believe one
was the One Laptop Per Child netbooks. And I'm forgetting the rest. In any
case none were commercially viable.
