@meso Meds now.

All listed laptops can have the ME disabled by simply not installing such proprietary software.

Although such macbooks have crap hardware, you can get such laptops cheaply unlike what remains of the quality thinkpads.


GNUboot has support for several motherboards which support AMD CPUs that do not have a PSP; https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuboot/web/docs/hardware/

Newer AMD CPUs (post 2015) have the same issue as newer Intel CPUs (post 2008), that is, not being able to init without handcuffed proprietary software.


Please point out which common, quality pre-PSP AMD laptops exist and I'm sure GNUboot would gladly list such as candidate hardware to GNUboot.

Such laptops would need to come with a nvidia GPU that doesn't store the VBIOS in the BIOS SPI flash, as ATI/AMD GPUs have only minimal free software support (you can avoiding loading the proprietary software and still get native resolution, but you don't get 3D-acceleration, or suspend support).