[coreboot] T430s or T430 (Was: latest greatest thinkpad with coreboot)

[ron minnich]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:00 AM Pok Gu <pokgoo002 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I own a T430 and T420. It seems there is not a strong motivation for doing
> the T430/T530 port. Unlike the T420/T520, the obvious benefit of coreboot
> is it can replace the sandy bridge CPU with an ivy bridge one. What are the
> explicit benefits that coreboot can bring to the T430/T530 except
> opensource/security?
>

I am very concerned about thinkpads and bios malware, as installed by
Lenovo:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenovo-busted-stealthily-installing-crapware-via-bios-fresh-windows-installs.shtml

This may not be a concern to you, but to many people it is an issue.

Thinkpads are nice. Their BIOS is not nice.
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