# 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 ChromeOS.
Some of them can be re-purposed to run conventional Linux.

Among Chromebooks using freedom-friendly hardware (e.g not NVIDIA or Broadcom)
with re-purposing software already developed (e.g. (supported)[] by Libreboot)
one option looks readily usable:

 * ASUS Chromebook C201PA (veyron speedy).
   * (HiSense ChromeBook 11 is similar but not sold in scandinavia)


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


[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/>