my next /g/aming ri/g/

My X60s is getting quite old, and I'd like to get another laptop (or netbook or tablet) without all the backstabbing BIOS and firmware that seem to be quite common on most consumer devices; before someone (Cudder) brings it up, I have better things to do than audit a four megabyte binary. I know two of you were working on hackboard, and there's a bunch of FOSS devboard projects cropping up all over the place; I'm wondering if there's an actual usable laptop using one of them somewhere on the horizon.

Also I don't mind if it's only 1 or even 0.5 GB of RAM and a somewhat slow CPU, the most resource-intensive application I ever use is probably eight megabytes and constantly swapping the web browser (because not all websites work in elinks, sadly).

Anyway, time to catch up on my sleep.

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If you want it to be profitable (in a decade or so), a nice way would be to make sure that all the hardware you produce is suitable for use under heavy radiation. The performance gap between [X produced in a manner that satisfies good verification] and [X bought from a big-name distributor, backdoors complementary] is absurd to the point where your sole userbase might consist of Cory Doctorow fans, but if you can make all your components space-ready without too much overhead compared to simply verifiable, you could win over a rapidly growing market.