Re: [qubes-users] beginner trying to choose a laptop question

2016-11-21 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:04 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > or go to a store and boot a liveCD then run the HCL. ^ This! It can be fun... You may wish to try to explain to an employee what you are doing, to avoid getting "banned" (thrown out) from that store for "trying to put malware on the compu

Re: [qubes-users] beginner trying to choose a laptop question

2016-11-21 Thread taii...@gmx.com
That is a consumer level laptop (AFIAK), you need to buy a HPE pro or elitebook if you want iommu (technical name for VT-d) generally otherwise it is hit or miss. You would have better luck with an AMD PRO APU laptop, they're less expensive than intel and AMD-Vi (IOMMU) is more of a standard f

[qubes-users] beginner trying to choose a laptop question

2016-11-21 Thread Warren
I'm looking at the "HP Laptop 250 G5 (X9U07UT#ABA) Intel Core i5 6200U (2.30 GHz) 8 GB Memory 256 GB SSD Intel HD Graphics 520" at (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834266056&cm_re=HP_Laptop_250_G5_%28X9U07UT%23ABA%29-_-34-266-056-_-Product). ark.intel.com says that VT-d an