Trisquel Notebook Reviewed
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http://www.thepowerbase.com/2011/12/think-penguins-penguin-air-review/
Not the most accurate review although some of the pictures aren't bad. The article is not terribly harsh either. I probably would have spoken about different aspects a little more harshly myself in his position. Although at the same time think some things mentioned were unnecessary and actually positives turned into negatives.
What is this "Tresquel" he keeps mentioning?
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You guys at ThinkPenguin should be more careful with the products presentations, the Penguin Air images on ThinkPenguin site are not really advantageous to the product, the reviewer images show a slick and elegant device with an ugly sticker (hopefully) at the bottom at the screen.
On the other hand the reviewer dose have a point with the need of a dual core processor, which brings me to the question: Is there to be expected a new model any time soon ?
Also, being burned by a Vostro, literally (90C+), I am curious how ThinkPenguin laptops manage the heat element.
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You are right although it is a lot of work presentation wise for a not so popular product. The target audience for this notebook tend to buy the Penguin Wee.
The review really does us an injustice. In all honesty it wasn't terribly well done. He made factual errors, spelled things wrong (Tresquel), etc. He apparently didn't even bother to look at the other products in our catalog or he would have known we have a similar (although not white) model with a Dual-Core Intel® Core™ i3-380UM 1.33GHz 3MB L3 Cache (VT).
As far as being burned. None of our laptops get that hot. They may get warm with heavy CPU use. I think they are actually cooler than most. Dell and some other companies put out some very bad/cheap designs.
This laptop is only so-so. I would actually recommend the Penguin International. The unit has a 15.6" screen and works beautifully. It may not be ultra slim and sleek, but it is the best of designs. I like the touchpad and that is something few laptops do right.
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I wish I had the money right now for the Penguin Air. It looks really awesome in that review.
Chris, is there any chance a notebook with the looks of Penguin Air will be available till end of 2012?
And btw, what about coreboot? Does any of your laptops support it, or are there any plans for supporting coreboot any time soon?
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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.
Chris, have you contacted anyone at the FSF? There's a page that links to companies that provide libre computers, but there are only two listed.
https://www.gnu.org/links/companies.html
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Yes. Although I did not explicitly ask for them to link to us. At the time I inquired I was mainly pointing out what appeared to be inadvertent support for digital restrictions and non-free software. That much was acknowledged. I also mentioned what we were doing.