> It also makes me nervous that they're putting resources into phones when they obviously haven't solved all the issues with non-free components of laptops. By

> It also makes me nervous that they're putting resources into phones when they obviously haven't solved all the issues with non-free components of laptops. By not using x86 (the board is going to use i.MX8), they remove a whole series of issues that plague modern laptops (no ME, no EMC, etc). They have a very long run-down on why they chose i.MX8, and the freedom status of the components[1]. [1]: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-roadmap-to-imx8/ https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-roadmap-to-imx8/