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by wsx 3789 days ago
> I just know the next laptop I buy will be whatever the highest end liberated Chromebook at the time is, preferably without cancerous firmware blobs that control everything, but that seems unlikely considering how anti-freedom Intel is.

Yep, I don't think you'll find x86 Chromebooks without blobs. Nowadays the only way Intel provides to boot their hardware is "here, take this binary and put it at the beginning of your BIOS".

Same thing with AMD, btw.

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I'm fine with ARM, hopefully future iterations of the ASUS C201[1] are portable to Libreboot in the future by the time I'm shopping for a new laptop. It won't be for a while, I hate giving these scum freedom denying companies my money for locked down puke.

[1]: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.html