[PLUG] I'm going to build a laptop..

Keith Lofstrom keithl at gate.kl-ic.com
Sat Jan 2 02:13:58 UTC 2016


On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 07:38:05PM -0800, Vedanta Teacher wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> After some deliberation I've decided to build my own *laptop* in the new
> year and install Linux on a virgin HD. I did have some questions:

Laptops can be modified, but building a laptop from scratch is not
practical.  I deeply modify my own, starting with used laptops.
For example, 15 inch diagonal 4x3 form factor IBM T60 laptops,
with the screen replaced with 2048x1536 glass.  I have enough
spares of both to last as long as I do, though the 2048 glass
is no longer in production, and the surplus market prices are
skyrocketing.

Someday, I hope other business users will realize that taller
high rez screens are better for A and A4 size page composition,
and create demand for the production of new tall screen laptops,

Security, CPU, etc?  I don't know of any CPU that is "better" for
security, and if one had special features for that, the kernel
would need to support those features.  I would love a CPU with
byte-counting interfaces, and large integer modulo arithmetic,
and a kernel that exploited these to cryptographically checksum
modules and programs as they come off the disk.  But most
people believe that sofware-only security is sufficient, so
I don't expect to see such hardware soon.

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com



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