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They're selling an ancient laptop at a premium because they installed Coreboot. They haven't addressed any of the problems with proprietary firmwares or backdoored chips.

RMS has been recommending the Loongson Lemote for a long time, which would seem to be a much better choice. The Lemote's firmware and hardware is essentially all open source, including its MIPS CPU.

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200 quid really isn't so bad, and the X60 was one of the best laptops of the age.

And it includes a brand new battery and the docking station.

Hmm... I still have fond memories of my X61. This is actually kind of tempting.

Do it. I still use a T400 every day and have a T61 as a fallback. There's nothing like them out there.

Extremely difficult to get a Lemote, though. I guess there's somewhere in the Netherlands that has them in stock. Shame the battery only lasts a couple hours.

The company is Tekmote.

http://www.tekmote.nl/

$500 for the 10' model, which gets 1.5 hours out of the battery. This is laughable.

When these were first announced, I wanted one badly. A cheap, MIPS-based laptop? Yes please. But you couldn't get one for a long time, and queries to the Chinese company were never answered. Now you can get one, but they're now out of date and too expensive.

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