Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop

Re:Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop by krylon on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @11:16AM (#14744874)

That would have been a cool machine, but unfortunately, the price was way outside my budget.

If such a machine with reasonable specs (I do not expect a 64-core 256-GB-RAM-monster) could be brought down to the 1000 $/€ price range, I would seriously look into it.

(I am not sure how realistic that price range is, though.)

What about Loongson? IIRC, Richard Stallmann uses a Notebook based on it, because it has free firmware. Performance is probably not breathtaking, but it exists. Does somebody know if there are Desktop machines built around that chip?

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Re:Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop by djsumdog on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:01PM (#14745252)

I have to agree. The Talon looked amazing, but the crowdfunding price was way out there.

They should have offered a bare version with just the board, ram and maybe video card (to ensure comparability). They needed the ~$1k USD hobbyist market.

It seems like the goals were way too high, like the Ubuntu Edge.

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Re:Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop by wmf on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:41PM (#14748336)

They should have offered a bare version with just the board...

They did offer that, but the board alone was $3,700.

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