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Hey, sorry for the delay in answering I've been kept busy. Yeah, more or less. Ideally, would be like a cheap tablet who can evetually be used also as a router and possible this thing should run, as much as possible (it doesn't have to be 100% at every cost, but, just as much as it is practically possible these days), on libre software. Ok, I didn't know that, thanks for telling me. But then I wonder would it maybe make more sense to have router and a portable on-the-go tablet on a separate boards? Would you suggest this? Maybe and for example something like the ESPRESSObin as a libre router and the Asus Thinker board or the Mqmaker MiQi as a cheap and libre tablet? Do you mean that to make something that it's at the same time a portable cheap libre tablet and a libre router would require a lot of manual work, or even if I separate the 2 boards with their different respective functions? Because in the ladder case, what I heard around it's not so tremendously complicated, or? What do you mean? And, if I should decide to go on and have them separated what would you suggest?

Yeah, thanks, I also heard quite a lot of not so nice things about the Banana Pi BPI-R1.. but it was an option I knew about, so I cited it anyhow. And why would you suggest me the ESPRESSObin exactly? Is there any special reason, or just a personal interest/preference? Because thing is that the ESPRESSObin has to be pre-ordered and it's still not available, while I instead would need something kind of soon, in not more than a month, if possible. Still looks promising, but it doesn't have any GPU from what I can see from the specs, couldn't then this lead to some stuttering or similar issues, for example with videos?

Hello, I wanted to "build" some kind of Libre Safebox and Libre Router (meaning as libre as possible, of course in this case). I searched around but I still didn't find anything really fully assembled (a part for the Project Turris router, but I was hoping in something more versatile, that isn't necessarily restricted to being a router), so I decide to, if possible, find/assemble a more custom solution by myself. It doesn't have to be anything particularly performing, just that it can handle 720p videos and resolutions smoothly enough, that it can be used to surf the internet even with several open tabs and maybe some basic office things. The most important thing is that it can be really as libre as possible, that has a good set of different inputs and outputs and, of course, that it doesn't have too critical unresolved hardware security flaws. It would also be important that the board can be enclosed into a proper case, that can protect the board and make it portable even when one needs to be on the go. At the moment I'm aware of the Olimex boards, the Banana Pi BPI-R1 and the other Banana boards, the Mqmaker boards, the ClearFog boards, this page here: http://linux-sunxi.org/Buying_guide and that should be more or less all. I mean, of course, I'm also aware of the Libreboot compatible laptops from minifree, but I would like to go with something a bit more portable than a usual laptop, maybe more like a tablet (on the guideline of the Nvidia Shield, maybe) and I also feel like minifree is charging a bit too much for the Libreboot installation, moreover, I heard that Libreboot can still be quite unreliable at times. So, what would you suggest me?