On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 01:56:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>
> As my next music playback machine I may even use such a Pine64. As anything
> from ThinkPad X240 and upwards appears to be "protected" by Intel Boot Guard
> Verified Boot crap, instead of just offering the Measured Boot feature for
> those who want it. Or I go with a ThinkPad X230 where it appears that Intel ME
> cleaner can do its work. May still be better the Pine64 appears to be a tad
> bit limited especially by memory, although for music playback it would be
> enough if expanded with a large MicroSD card. And it would have the advantage
> that I would not have to mess with removing crap as it does not appear to have
> crap inside. And cheaper too.
>
> Other alternative may be a Chromebook if I can rid it easily enough of Chrome
> OS and install my distro of choice on it.

You might consider the Purism laptops, one of which has a detachable
keyboard. https://puri.sm/products/

I don't know if price/performance and the set of I/O ports are in
your range, though.

-- hendrik