Marc Haber <mh+debian-boot@zugschlus.de> (2025-05-25):
> Sadly, the Geizhals database is not always exact-to-the-point in those
> technical details.
No worries, the more important point to me is: options way under 1000
EUR exist! I'm just glad I spotted the “many variants exist” thing
before buying blindly. :)
> Maybe you can get an even stiffer discount or order via the DD program?
Heh, I was just checking that and while my account still exists
(somewhat… “Bonjour, not specified!”), after configuring the laptop
the exact same way I ended up with the exact same price.
That made a world of difference when I bought my beefy workstation a
while back though!
> I would really love to see the Installer tested on an ARM notebook.
Me too! I think when I was at the release session (Cambridge, '23), I
asked about that kind of things; there were some options but most of
them were less than ideal (e.g. having to fiddle with some u-boot fork
or stuff like that), so I ended up not investigating this further.
To my hardmware-illiterate eyes, it seems the market got a flurry of
options lately, and I'd be happy to investigate such things at a later
point. We've got lots of arm64 love from Emanuele Rocca at the very
least, so I'd hope Debian users to have a fighting chance on non-crazy
pieces of hardware!
Right now, I went for the safe{,r,st} option, keeping my focus on that
one thing (possibly getting more hardware and/or firmware related fun
along the way)… without risking having to fight just to boot the damn
thing. :-)
Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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