IMO buy a W520 and install a quad core ivy bridge CPU - 32GB RAM and you can use open source and open cpu/ram hw init coreboot[1] firmware and also me cleaner to nerf the ME. (disabling ME is impossible)
It is easy to find components to refurb it yourself with a new battery/keyboard/palmrest/lid etc for not much money. Don't buy new blobbed junk, all new x86 stuff can't ever be made owner controlled hence it isn't really your computer. [1] Coreboot is not always open source firmware - a certain company dishonestly peddles "open source coreboot firmware" laptops where the hardware init process is entirely performed via binary blobs and coreboot is just a wrapper layer. -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/85e1405d-eb6e-9dcd-6931-52285cf0a4db%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
