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Eh, looks like your common unbranded OEM laptop ale PCSpec at about 50% premium price.

Also a "privacy" oriented laptop with Boot Guard disabled? hah? With how prevalent UEFI malware appears to be why would any one want to disable pretty much the only security measure against it?

Boot Guard allows you to perform block level or cryptographic verification of the BIOS and firmware.

And while a CPU fused to boot unsigned bios sounds nice and nifty virtually ever motherboard out there supports unlocking the signature validation using a hard or a soft jumper any how.

Disabling that is like disabling the file system integrity access checks on an encrypted hard drive it can only lead to a disaster....



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