System76 Will Begin Shipping 2 Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open Source Firmware

'System76, the Denver-based Linux PC manufacturer and developer of Pop
OS, has some stellar news for those who prefer their laptops a little
more open. Later this month the company will begin shipping two of
their laptop models with its Coreboot-powered open source firmware.
From a report:

Beginning today, System76 will start taking pre-orders for both the
Galago Pro and Darter Pro laptops. The systems will ship out later in
October, and include the company's Coreboot-based open source firmware
which was previously teased at the 2019 Open Source Firmware
Conference. (Coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS, is a software
project aimed at replacing proprietary firmware found in most
computers with a lightweight firmware designed to perform only the
minimum number of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or
64-bit operating system.) What's so great about ripping out the
proprietary firmware included in machines like this and replacing it
with an open alternative? To begin with, it's leaner. System76 claims
that users can boot from power off to the desktop 29% faster with its
Coreboot-based firmware.

[...] Both of these laptops can be kitted out with 10th-Generation
Intel CPUs (specifically the i5-10210U and the i7-10510U), and both
have glare-resistant matte 1080p IPS displays. Beginning at $949, the
Galago Pro features an all-aluminum chassis, a wealth of connectivity
options including HDMI, DisplayPort to USB-C and Thunderbolt, and can
be configured with up to 32GB of RAM and up to 6TB of storage space.
The Darter Pro, meanwhile, can be built out with 32GB of RAM and up to
2TB of storage, and features up to 10 hours of battery life.'

-- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/10/10/1847228

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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