Trisquel Notebook Reviewed

Tresquel = Trisquel. I missed that one actually. There were so many other errors in the review. I think the pictures at small resolutions weren't too bad though. Of course there is more to a review than pictures.

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.

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.

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.