> One reason why I was leaning towards the x220 is because Ive heard a lot > that its eventually going to get libreboot support, so if everything else is > almost equal, the chance of libreboot would give the edge to the x220 for > me.
A while ago Leah said she was working on the X220, but she later said in a thread here that it isn't happening for the forseeable future and that she had refunded the preorders. Also, from the libreboot website[1]: "Basically, all Intel hardware from year 2010 and beyond will never be supported by libreboot. The libreboot project is actively ignoring all modern Intel hardware at this point, and focusing on alternative platforms." If a corebooted and ME-cleaned X220 or X230 is the best way for you to avoid ME and the factor BIOS on your Dell then it's worthwhile, but I wouldn't count on either getting more free than that in the future. Intel is a dead end. I'm more optimistic about EOMA68, but that doesn't address your immediate problem of needed a more powerful libre computer. > Ive flashed libreboot on a x200 and T400, and put coreboot on a Dell > Chromebook 11 - is it any harder to do on a x220? From what I hear the X220 and X230 work well with Coreboot. I have no experience with external flashing, but if you've done it three times I'm sure you can handle it. > Is there any news about > libreboot? Id obviously prefer that since it handles ME by default, unlike > Coreboot which reqires an additional step (if im correct). For the reasons above, I think libreboot has gone as far as it can with Intel hardware. > it > seems the x220 may end up being a worthy replacement. I think it would be a good replacement for your Dell, but would be a step backward from your X200. > I also have a T400s btw, but havent gotten around to trying to libreboot it > because I havent found any good instructions. Yes, it looks like the libreboot site only mentions the T400. I don't know if librebooting the T400s requires a different process, but it must be doable since Technoethical is selling[2] them. Maybe you could contact them? [1] https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel [2] https://tehnoetic.com/tet-t400s
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