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You forgot the ridiculous price tag for a refurb X200. My stacked X201 8Gb of RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 pro, new 9-cell, ultrabase with DVDRW, keyboard, mouse, 22"

• jordigh 11y ago
  > Freedom is expensive. I'm willing to pay that price for owning something that I know cannot spy on me, does not have remote kill switches I can't control, and is completely serviceable from bottom to top by any third party. It really is sad that these requirements are now expensive. They used to be taken for granted.
  • Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 11y ago
    But if there's one thing we learnt the last few years, it's that we were never able to take those things for granted in the first place. You were never free of threat of spyware or kill switches. If anything, we have gotten much better at security than ever before.
    • nitrogen 11y ago
      Security from whom? Malware has always been fairly easy to avoid as a consumer. Built-in backdoors? What do you do about that?
    • yuhong 11y ago
      Intel ME is relatively new, but it is also probably worth noting that it does not phone home until software asks it to be activated.