Eric: > On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 10:44:33 PM UTC-8, [email protected] > wrote: >> Forgot to say: Purism is just an overpriced quanta/oem whitebox >> laptop, it takes 5mil+ of startup funds to do a small run of *just >> a motherboard* let alone an entire laptop computer including the >> fab for a fancy aluminum case - it is quite obvious that their >> components are not "hand selected" and that they just called up >> some chinese OEM and asked them what they had kicking around. >> >> I can't understand if they are scammers or just really naive, >> Instead of making an OpenPower or ARM laptop and having it be 100% >> libre from the start they instead do the dishonest "you'll go to >> disneyworld one day poor johnny" - If google can't convince intel >> to open up FSP/ME then nobody can - coreboot with FSP is just >> shimboot (black box FSP - 95% of the bios work) >> >> It bothers me quite a lot that they are on the list of approved >> vendors when they are a dishonest company. > > Whoa. Ok, hold on a sec. I did not buy a Purism computer, though not > for those reasons - putting a 28W TDP proc in a 15inch "workstation" > is absurd to me. as is their lack of a screen configuration. I hear > your anger at the gap between what they promise and what they > deliver; I'm more displeased on the hardware side of things (though I > do like HW kill switches. I've looked into what they promise and > understand very well that they don't actually have a very free > computer at all, especially on the bios/firmware side. > > What I actually ordered (and have now cancelled), was a Dell XPS 15". > There is no vPro option in the configure menu, though it does support > VT-d and SLAT. I've read all of Joanna's papers, and understand the > concerns about Intel ME very well. However, on the Dell order, it > claimed "ME Disabled." Perhaps they simply meant that vPro/AMT/TXT > was disabled, and that was mine and Dell's fault for wishful thinking > and false naming, respectively. Please see linked photo: > https://d.pr/Q0YZ >
Moral considerations aside, why not buy that Dell and pair it with a portable router/firewall like this (https://www.compulab.co.il/utilite-computer/web/products)? Shouldn't that effectively block out any ME-related mischief or do I have a fundamental misunderstanding? It doesn't seem possible otherwise to get the type of processing power you're looking for in a laptop form-factor. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e9007159-2961-d96f-1c21-9d5e70de6aec%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
