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Whilst I’m really happy purism is doing what they’re doing, it’s always a little sad to see the handful of things that get in the way of this being a fantastic

Whilst I’m really happy purism is doing what they’re doing, it’s always a little sad to see the handful of things that get in the way of this being a fantastic machine. Firstly, the WiFi card being 802.11n really doesn’t cut it in 2020. Next, the bezels look really large. I’ve fallen in love with my precision 5530’s tiny bezels. I really want a machine with some good I/O, made sturdily, with an AMD cpu/GPU, and free software. I don’t think such a thing really exists though.

zamadatix 6y ago
Now that the 4700U is out I'd expect a decent set of laptops to come out for it if not already. I recently settled on a Precision 7740 (17", full keyboard+numpad, Intel+AMD GPUs, 128GB RAM, 4 NVMe bays, 4k, aluminum body) myself which gives you pretty much everything except the AMD CPU (which I wanted but couldn't wait to see how the 4700U panned out). Not sure if the 15" 7540 has the same options or not.
nine_k 6y ago
Larger bezels allow you to open the laptop without putting fingerprints on the screen.
- zapzupnz 6y ago
  I haven't a clue why you'd be touching the screen to open your laptop, anyway. All the Apple laptops I've had since the PowerBook G4, I only need to touch the outer edge, and the few PC laptops I've had haven't been too dissimilar.
pengaru 6y ago
> with an AMD cpu/GPU, and free software Last I checked the AMD story was worse than Intel. At least on Intel you can go the ME-cleaner route to disable the Management Engine backdoor. On AMD there's no equivalent for the PSP AFAIK. AIUI Purism ships Intel laptops with both ME disabled and Coreboot.
- pizzazzaro 6y ago
  Rumor mill has it that more recent ASRock boards, and a few others, ship with a bios option to disable the PSP. Also, how unlikely is it that we'll see coreboot support? I'd love to see that.

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Whilst I’m really happy purism is doing what they’re doing, it’s always a little sad to see the handful of things that get in the way of this being a fantastic

by noodlesUK 6y ago

zamadatix 6y ago
Now that the 4700U is out I'd expect a decent set of laptops to come out for it if not already. I recently settled on a Precision 7740 (17", full keyboard+numpad, Intel+AMD GPUs, 128GB RAM, 4 NVMe bays, 4k, aluminum body) myself which gives you pretty much everything except the AMD CPU (which I wanted but couldn't wait to see how the 4700U panned out). Not sure if the 15" 7540 has the same options or not.
nine_k 6y ago
Larger bezels allow you to open the laptop without putting fingerprints on the screen.
- zapzupnz 6y ago
  I haven't a clue why you'd be touching the screen to open your laptop, anyway. All the Apple laptops I've had since the PowerBook G4, I only need to touch the outer edge, and the few PC laptops I've had haven't been too dissimilar.
pengaru 6y ago
> with an AMD cpu/GPU, and free software Last I checked the AMD story was worse than Intel. At least on Intel you can go the ME-cleaner route to disable the Management Engine backdoor. On AMD there's no equivalent for the PSP AFAIK. AIUI Purism ships Intel laptops with both ME disabled and Coreboot.
- pizzazzaro 6y ago
  Rumor mill has it that more recent ASRock boards, and a few others, ship with a bios option to disable the PSP. Also, how unlikely is it that we'll see coreboot support? I'd love to see that.