Talk:Speculations on the Future of Free Geek

Verified By Intel® Verified by Intel is an Intel-led initiative with three notebook ODMs to improve the ecosystem for mobile products and bring to market notebook barebones that better meet the needs of resellers and systems integrators.

Suppliers Quanta, Asus and Compal will begin manufacturing notebook barebones that have been verified by Intel for interchangeability across seven components: hard drives, optical drive, keyboard, battery, LCD screen, customizable notebook panels and AC adapters. You will be able to purchase these barebones through select Intel® Authorized Distributors, and integrate them with Intel and third party products.

The full text can be found here 

i know that free geek is usually a few years behind the "industry". in looking at the "larger picture" i think it is important to point out future plans in the industry.

in short this article pertains to an intel-led standard for laptop parts by the 3 largest manufactures of laptop parts. moving forward there is a higher probablity that interchangeable laptop parts will be availible for future free geek machines.