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The Star Labs StarBook is Qubes-Certified!
(www.qubes-os.org)
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Can you explain a little bit? Which backdoors are you worried about with Qubes?
Historically speaking, IME has been a low hanging fruit of attack vectors and intel has arguably speaking had worse problems with security vulnerabilities on hardware and firmware levels than say AMD or ARM. A bit anecdotal, but there you are.
Star Labs disable IME by default.
AMD and ARM also have their remote standards, but none as distrusted as IME.
Also, remember that vulnerability where IME could be enabled through the internet by a malicious actor? That was fun...
To be fair, if you're referring to the "alleged" backdoors in Intel processes, there's pretty similar stuff going on in the AMD side too. That said, I still totally get not wanting to support Intel since they're definitely the shadiest of the two, and they've been awful value these days.
The Framework 13 AMD is pretty great though, can confirm. It's all I've ever wanted in a decent, repairable laptop.