I would like some purchasing advice: I'm looking for a laptop that is reasonably secure and also has a built in touch screen. I would prefer if it had 16 GB of ram as I want to run Qubes OS and I want to sometimes be able to run a Windows App-VM for dictation and speech recognition which is processed locally (I do a lot of writing and I also care about security/privacy).
The dream would be to run one of Purisms Libre 13 and 15 laptops, however they do not have a touch screen. Purism are planning to release a Librem 11 laptop (with a touchscreen) but it will only have 8 GB of RAM and cannot be upgraded. I think this is not enough for my needs. Thats why I'm looking for an alternative laptop. I read on Purisms website that having a processor without AMT or in Intels case what they call "vPro" is important to avoid possible hardware backdoors. https://puri.sm/learn/avoiding-intel-amt/ My second alternative is to buy a non purism laptop which has both a touchscreen, enough RAM and is fairly secure. So my second alternative that I'm considering would be the Lenovo 520 Yoga. https://www.dustin.se/product/5011033265/yoga-520-touch . The model is running the Intel® Core™ i5-7200U Processor. According to the specification page on Intels website, this processor does not have the vPro technology. https://ark.intel.com/products/95443/Intel-Core-i5-7200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz These are my questions 1) Is there anything except for the AMT/vPro aspect of the hardware security that I might have overlooked that is critical when evaluating the Lenovo Yogas safety? 2) Should one in general be sceptic towards Lenovo even when they are using hardware from other manufacturers? 3) are there a Qubes user out there who are already using a laptop with touch screen and enough ram, running Qubes? What laptop model are you using and would you recommend it? -- 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/1a4c0100-aa7e-4483-8f41-528464177ef5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
