If the product doesn't fit your needs, don't buy it. But we're not going to get a completely open source laptop that competes with mass market options at the same price over night.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's not really a relevant argument here. One of the massive benefits of RISC-V is the lack of proprietary instruction sets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But we're talking about the supply chain for a GPU that is compatible with this new RISC-V main board that is also good enough to compete with another laptop at the same price point (looks like it's an IMG BXE-2-32).

That's what I'm saying, we're on the right path, but we're not going to get there over night. If you want a working viable daily driver today, there are some compromises that have to be made still.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Bummer

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

Are there any companies making discrete laptop graphics that don't have proprietary drivers? I don't think I've ever seen an AMD powered laptop unless it used an APU. I shudder to think of what proprietary Linux drivers from a company less resourced than Nvidia are like.

[–] SteveTech 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't think I've ever seen an AMD powered laptop unless it used an APU.

There's at least 4 on AMD's website, so they do exist but they don't seem very common.

Also Intel has laptop chips, but I'm not sure if it's actually discrete or just another die on the CPU.