Everyone please be aware that purism's marketing is dishonest. Their products do not have open source firmware[1] and the ME is not disabled (the kernel still runs along with mask roms and the me hw init code)
Intel chips or any new x86 for that matter do NOT respect your privacy! [1]Their coreboot is simply a shim loader layer for Intel's FSP binary blob that performs the hardware initiation - these days coreboot doesn't necessarily mean open source firmware. In terms of laptops it is much better to purchase for instance an owner controlled pre-PSP AMD G505S[2] which has open cpu/ram init via coreboot or one of the ivy/sandy thinkpads which while not owner controlled are significantly more free than puri.crap as they have open cpu/ram/gpu init via coreboot and their ME can be nerfed down to the BUP layer which while is not at all equivilant to not having an ME at all such as on non-x86 arches or pre-PSP AMD it is still much better. All of my laptop recommendations here work great with Qubes 4.0 and there is a nice little qubes g505s community. [2](for the best user experience make sure to get the highest end quad core A10 model if you buy one - although the less expensive A6 quad core models are still quite usable) I do not have an issue with purism selling non-free laptops - I have an issue with them being dishonest. -- 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/b706b02b-6461-3461-7a6b-19b8ebdb9a8f%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
