I have purchased multiple refurbished business-class dell laptops over the past half decade. These laptops always come with windows pre-installed which I immediately overwrite. I like these laptops because they are easily/cheaply repaired. You can get 16Gb ram and 1tb ssd for pretty cheap.
Do you remove Intel ME? That's my main concern. Happy to pay more for a computer without it. Installing Linux is the first thing I'd do, too
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I have not removed ME. I haven’t tried to but am now curious now.
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