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Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price

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Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets

Purism has launched the Librem 16, a privacy-focused Linux laptop with a 16-inch display and hardware controls designed to disable potentially intrusive components.

The machine runs Coreboot firmware and disables Intel's Management Engine. Founder and CEO Todd Weaver told The Register about doing this back in 2017. Purism also offers privacy-centric smartphones.

The new laptop has two hardware kill switches located in the strip between the keyboard and the screen hinge. One of them disconnects the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi controllers, and the other similarly neuters the webcam and microphone.

The spec is reasonable. It has an Intel Core i7-13620H CPU with ten cores – six performance cores and four efficiency ones – which can boost up to 4.9 GHz. You can customize the specificationto taste, but the base model has 16 GB of DDR4 RAM and...

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