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Strange FAQ answer: Why use ancient Thinkpads instead of modern Macbooks

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jonathancross commented

https://github.com/linuxboot/heads-wiki/blob/master/About/FAQ.md#why-use-ancient-thinkpads-instead-of-modern-macbooks

This FAQ answer does not address the question:

The x230 Thinkpad has coreboot support, TPM, nice keyboards and are very cheap to experiment on. Newer Thinkpads contain Bootguard, a closed source security function implemented by Intel to prevent unsigned custom firmware, such as coreboot and heads, from being installed.

Specifically: it doesn't mention Macbooks, but rather talks about the x230 Thinkpad.

daringer commented

For me this reads like "macbook" is meant to be figuratively - representing any/most modern laptops, thus I don't think it should be explicitly mentioned...

tlaurion commented

https://osresearch.net/FAQ/#why-use-ancient-thinkpads-instead-of-modern-macbooks

So we want to replace MacBook by "newer platforms" and keep example of newer thinkpads being bootguard enabled and coreboot unsupported hardware as counter examples?

@daringer @jonathancross : thoughts/specific expectations on what should be there instead?

daringer commented

I would stick with my previous comment, essentially a macbook is used figuratively here and I think it is ok like that

jonathancross commented

I would just change the word "Macbook" to "Laptop".
The two are not synonymous to me.