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, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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