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+# Ideas and work in progress
+
+## laptop-light
+
+Next laptop would be lighter -
+or similar weight but longer battery life
+(instead of more powerful).
+
+### Chromebook
+
+Chromebooks are laptop-ish machines to *only* run Google Chrome browser.
+
+Among Chromebooks using freedom-friendly hardware (e.g not NVIDIA)
+where core software is actively being developed (e.g. (supported)[] by Libreboot)
+one option looks readily usable:
+
+ * ASUS Chromebook C201PA (veyron speedy).
+
+Pros:
+ * Should work with Debian
+ * Maybe 10+ hours battery life
+ * Free bootloader
+ * Not prime suspect of NSA-crippled crypto chips
+ * Localized keyboard (for scandinavian, at least)
+
+Cons:
+ * Maybe too slow screen drawing (no hardware 3D graphics)
+ * Maybe too slow disk access (MicroSD storage)
+ * Maybe too low quality keyboard
+
+Availability:
+ * (Ministry of Freedom)[minifree]
+ * bootloader pre-flashed
+ * Likely UK keyboard
+ * Likely power supply w/ UK plug
+ * (Misc. danish webshops)[edbpriser]
+ * Need re-flashing bootloader
+ * Scandinavian keyboard
+ * Power supply w/ europlug
+
+(HiSense ChromeBook 11 seems similar in specification to ASUS Chromebook C201PA,
+but in unavailable in scandinavia).
+
+
+[supported]: "Git commit message mentioning ChromeOS devices initially covered by Paper build system"
+ <https://notabug.org/vimuser/libreboot/commit/112003a>
+
+[minifree]: "Chromebook C201 at Ministry of Freedom"
+ <https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-c201/>
+
+[edbpriser]: "Chromebook C201 at various danish webshops"
+ <http://www.edbpriser.dk/baerbar-laptop/asus-chromebook-c201pa-fd0009-id-11012412.aspx>
+
+### laptop-tinker
+
+A few projects exists to create Open Source Hardware laptops,
+with one promising near-future option:
+
+ * (OLinuXino TERES-I)[TERES]
+
+[TERES]: " TERES-I Do-It-Yourself Open Source Hardware and Software Laptop"
+ <https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY%20Laptop/>