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Consider establishing a few reference hardware platforms

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Description

Having a few inexpensive hardware systems that we test on would make for a "it just works" experience on those systems.

"Benchmark"
* FullHD video playback in Chromium/Falkon
* Smooth desktop usage
* Light video editing of screencasts with Shotcut
* Good global availability
* Inexpensive (< 200 EUR/USD)

### SBCs

* __ARM__ Nvidia Jetson Nano Development Kit 4GB - Version B01?
* __ARM__ Raspberry Pi 4? (May not really be up to the task of providing good desktop performance)? [Status](https://twitter.com/zxombie/status/1281231088518643714) | [Status](https://lambdaland.org/posts/2020-12-23_freebsd_rpi4/)
* __ARM__ Amlogic S905/S912/A311D based devices ("TV boxes")?

### Notebooks

* "Inexpensive" (older) Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 with good global second-hand availability?
* ThinkPad T470s and T480s is reported to already work well (see below)
* MacBooks that are no longer supported with macOS by Apple?
* __ARM__ Rockchip RK3399 devices like Pinebook Pro, RockPro? [Status](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-desktop-for-rk3399-sbc.76090/), [S199pWa1k9r/crochet](https://github.com/S199pWa1k9r/crochet)
* **Framework Laptop** (see below) https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Framework_Laptop

### Desktops

* Mac minis and iMacs that are no longer supported with macOS by Apple?

### Peripherals

* Apple keyboards and mice
* Raspberry Pi keyboard and mice (the keyboard has a physical layout similar to Apple keyboards and it lets helloSystem _automatically_ detect the keyboard layout

cc @S199pWa1k9r

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