[XCSSA] Laptop raffle

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Tuesday 09 June 2009, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> Dunno if y'all have seen this yet:
> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/06/laptop-raffle-features-alienware-beau
>ty.html


I had a few of those AMD bircks for a while:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Internet_Communicator

Very cool little AMD GX500 Geode proc (1Watt) x86 "PC brick".. completely 
sealed.. designed for third world countries and ISPs.

The thing is (and the wiki doesn't mention this) is that even if you can get 
it to boot a different media, you can't install anything else on it (like 
Ubuntu) since the things runs a "Trusted Platform" chipset:

that precludes you from running anything but its special signed version of 
Windows on it.  Yet another sad flavor of "Digital Restrictions Management" 
(as Stallman calls it).

Tweeks