-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 15:30 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi > > On 9/2/2020 2:19 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > US: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/Linux > > > Canada: http://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/linuxca > > > > I've tried registering on the US website and it seems to work fine here. > > I'm > > not completely sure how explicit the “rebate” is (and with the LABORDAY > > coupon > > currently on the “standard” website it's not easy to compare). Anyway I > > didn't > > investigate further because I'm from Europe so I'll wait a bit. > > > I'm just curious - it doesn't let you double up on the discounts? (I > have no idea if it would or not....but worth a go :P)
To be fair, I did try to add that, but the /Linux website told me the coupon was expired :) > > > > We're still working on getting other geographies up and running - not > > > available yet I'm afraid. > > > > Any idea of the timeframe? Weeks, months, more? > Afraid I don't know but I hope it's not months...it will depend on the > geo teams to some extent. > The US site took us a few weeks to get up but that was the first > one....so fingers crossed the others are easier. My colleague is chasing > the others down so I'll check with him what the status is. Ack, thanks! > > On the X1C configuration I tried, the “Absolute” stuff is there but one > > can't > > change it. For the HAP the snippet is not there at all (although I think I > > remember seeing it once) > > > I've not played with that but I can find out about it. I've got a T14 > AMD in front of me right now and it I could configure the Absolute > Persistence Module (enable/disable/permanently disable). Yeah I know the end-user / administrator can disable it in the BIOS settings, but there's apparently a way to do it on the website and I was curious about it. > For the ME HAP...I don't see that either. I'll see if I can find out > about it. Obviously that's only on Intel platforms (AMD has the PSP processor but I'm unsure if there's an equivalent HAP stuff). This one actually *needs* to be set by the OEM before end of manufacturing (flashing would work on older Intel platforms but not the more recent ones). Some details can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#%22High_Assurance_Platform%22_mode Regards, - -- Yves-Alexis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEE8vi34Qgfo83x35gF3rYcyPpXRFsFAl9P9HsACgkQ3rYcyPpX RFtQdggAqqLcNKfzR8wWePE3tKc9i8jd3m/ey53GCOY/SvcF9j88ajDBqJlgkFm8 tcr6tlNPWsqqBDEYceslXrzEE94c2I9Ddrh0g1nn4/bpVMLgKWUgqq2fculhfhMt et3gDr+M8ERCWHBHTHNK0adVxGfidC8JlXamgNFaMOpg9YJ8rMcZhwKAA1aS1Jgq Oj9Bf2Ec7T2lj4PZNG1RrOoOzV16xx6DAkGv1ZUAXXd2+mLpbnRWWfnhPfD0GEKH iz3Ehrdn1Kxkt2qNNirQA8SkdTbJA+hXb89RxDFrSWuQGDWiuxZJiey5zjDbPHMm eUZHn5mBsIpyF70a4dMSY5u4Mdr/7A== =U/iR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
