Idea for ThinkPinguin
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Hey everyone,
it would be great if thinkpinguin buys used notebook which are capable of coreboot, installs everything and sells them for an appropriate price.
I think I would buy one.
Of course I'm aware I'm not the first one with this idea. But perhaps you can tell me why it doesn't work.
For a normal person, buying a notebook and flashing the bios is a bit risky, since there's the danger of making the device unusable if something goes wrong.
A company could make a calculation and just raise the price of the working, corebooted notebooks if x numbers of devices got bricked.
And after the first weeks, things might be just a routine.
Or is it a problem like "this notebook *might* use this bios or not"?
Perhaps notebooks that turn out to have the wrong chip can be sold again on the normal market without big loss?
> it would be great if thinkpinguin buys used notebook which are capable
> of coreboot, installs everything and sells them for an appropriate
> price.
It was discussed multiple times [0], [1]. It's nontrivial to port, old
machines get more expensive and used aren't reliable on a larger scale.
[0] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/penguin-gnu-linux-laptop-w-1920x1080-matte-screen-now-shipping#comment-36136
[1] https://trisquel.info/en/forum/coreboot-triquel-computers#comment-18170
> For a normal person, buying a notebook and flashing the bios is a bit
> risky, since there's the danger of making the device unusable if
> something goes wrong.
True. Some free boot firmware developers unsolder the chips or use
special devices for in-system flashing.
Ok, thanks.
I didn't expect things to be that difficult.
But it's a great idea nevertheless.
I wanted to post here a comment, but after I done the writing was deleted :-(.
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