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an i7, which while proprietary doesn't necessarily have to be bundled with the typical Intel AMT, which the FSF dislikes[1]. Besides the CPU, it contains propr
by serf 12y ago
an i7, which while proprietary doesn't necessarily have to be bundled with the typical Intel AMT, which the FSF dislikes[1].
Besides the CPU, it contains proprietary nVidia chips. Another company which doesn't have too stellar of a 'open' record.
[1]: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-techno...
- minthd 12y agoThe chip this uses , the i7-4770HQ , uses vt-d. According to invisible labs[1], vt-d can allow certain malware attacks. Afaik, even after being informed of this by invisible labs researchers, intel did nothing(afaik) to solve this. [1]http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.co.il/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.co.il/2011/05/following-w...
- walterbell 12y agoIt was mitigated in software and fixed in post-2011 hardware, http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.html http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2...
- Decade 12y agoAlso, they're no longer using the Nvidia chip. They say it's because they decided that VT-d was very important, and the i7-4770HQ needed for the VT-d required them to use the Intel GPU. Honestly, I prefer the Intel GPU. I don't play a lot of 3D games, and the Iris Pro GPU is so much faster than many discrete GPUs I've used, and the Intel graphics driver team actually tries to cooperate with the open source community. Unlike the Intel network driver team.