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Lemmy predicts: Chromebooks will become the new Thinkpads (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Maybe this is a hot take. However, a lot of the Chromebooks that were deployed by schools during covid are build like tanks while being super lightweight and having great battery life. Meanwhile the old thinkpads are 10 years old and are probably starting to wear down. Many Chromebooks support coreboot these days so theoretically they have the potential to be more private and secure. Some of them are also arm which means that they are more efficient from an architecture perspective.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a thinkpad guy, but I thought one reason for people liking old thinkpads is that the old ones came with cpu's that predate the intel management engine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. The ARM Chromebooks can run coreboot in a lot of cases. I am not sure about WiFi and GPU acceleration but at least those can be isolated if necessary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Coreboot does not remove IME. Libreboot (a coreboot distro) does. Or neuter it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

It can be configured however you want. Also ARM devices don't have ME