Clevo laptop with Intel graphics (Ivy Bridge) supported? Haswell support?
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I'm in the process of thinking to switch from Mac to Trisquel. I mostly surf around and do not need any special features. Connect network with cable and use external USB3 storage. Extra external monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Where I live there is now a drive on probably a Clevo W550EU or W551EU. With I7 3612QM (No vPro or TXT), optical drive, 16GB ram, 250GB SSD, 1920x1080 IPS-panel, Intel only graphics for 1400 USD. No Microsoft tax on that machine.
The machine:
http://www.pc-konsulten.se/barbara/mobility/konfigurerbara.html
I want Bluetooth to sync old style mobile phones address book (Nokia). A USB bluetooth adapter will probably fix that.
How is the support for Clevo laptops? Laptops based on Intel, is it only the wireless card that can be a problem? Then no problem for me?
I would like too buy from Think Pinguin or System76 but then I have to buy, if possible, new keyboard and replace the old on the laptop. System76 runs Clevo and get a new keyboard and replace the old is probably not so hard.
System76s Gazelle Professional looks very interesting but how is the support for Haswell in the free software world right now?
PS: Split the forum in two parts, one hardware and one software?
One place you might find answers from is http://h-node.org
While I don't agree with everything vPro said, I would agree that you should avoid that new Intel technology. VPRO is a backdoor at the hardware level, you can't trust it.
According to Intels on specifications there are a bunch of Haswell mobile processors that do not support vPro.
Mobile processors that do NOT have vPro support:
Core i3
i3-4010Y
i3-4010U
i3-4100U
i3-4158U
Core i5
i5-4200Y
i5-4200U
i5-4250U
i5-4258U
i5-4288U
Core i7
i7-4500U
i7-4550U
i7-4558U
i7-4700HQ
i7-4700MQ
i7-4702HQ
i7-4702MQ
i7-4750HQ
Mobile processors that DO have vPro support:
Core i5
i5-4350U
Core i7
i7-4650U
i7-4800MQ
i7-4850HQ
i7-4900MQ
i7-4950HQ
i7-4930MX
In your first post in this forum you point this out and posted a link to Wikipedia. I can't find any reference that the mobile models all support vPro. All the server (Xeon) do support vPro and many Desktop excluding "Parts below 45xx as well as R and K parts do not support TSX, Trusted Execution Technology, or Vpro." to quote Wikipedia. And that is what i also see on Intels on specification page:
http://ark.intel.com/compare/75037,75036,75045,76640,75044,75043,75050,76641,75049,75047,75048,75121,75125,76642,75124,75122,75123
vPro: Where is your source?
@GNUser+Garsmith: You are new to this forum. Please read vPro's record (always the same messages, often copy-pasted) and understand why we are ignoring him. That certainly is the best thing to do. Notice that I am not pretending the vPro technology is not a problem. It definitely is. The vPro Trisquel user is a problem.
Hey, he actually picked the right name for himself "vPro, a pain in the back, no matter if it's a user or a technology". xD
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