Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7 <at> gmx.de> writes: > > Hello list > > so I was about to treat myself to a new Thinkpad. After malware, backdoor > and BIOS rootkit stories at Lenovo’s (which to my knowledge were all > Windows-only problems) I already started looking elsewhere and even > considered bying a used model which existed before all this modern crap came > along, but always came back yet for lack of better alternatives.
Why not look at a laptop with one of the newer AMD chips? I abandoned Intel quite some time ago, and even google is purchasing new 64 bit arm solutions from applied Micro (I think that's the company). [1] I'd go arm64 (aarch14-v8) with lots of ram on a laptop. [1] http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/applied-micro-circuits-ships-microserver-chips-in-challenge-to-intel-567805 hth, James
