Framework comes with Intel ME enabled, not able to be disabled, and barely updates their firmware. For example, they left logofail unpatched for a year.
As I said, the better option would be a pre-Haskell era CPU so that you can flash libreboot on it and don't have to worry so much about intel-ucode, but that would also imply a more than 10 years old laptop.
I just wish there would be more free and open options.
The RISC V meme of the Hackers movie from the 90s is now so old that it's never gonna happen anyways. Those CPUs are nice and all, but you're even better off using a Pentium CPU performance wise, and that's a 20 years old CPU.
>Those CPUs are nice and all, but you're even better off using a Pentium CPU performance wise, and that's a 20 years old CPU.
This is out of date information. Currently purchasable RISC-V CPUs (in e.g. Milk-V Jupiter) are already the level of Intel Core 2, with the important difference that Jupiter has 8x of them, whereas the top Core 2 chips were only quad-core.
Cores expected to ship in early 2025 on 16-core Milk-V Oasis are at the level of Intel Haswell or AMD Zen 1.
Akeana, Tenstorrent, SiFive and Ventana have IP available for licensing which performance is similar or above Apple M1.
There isn't much of a performance gap left to close.
