[samtoday]

Well, you can get a POWER{8,9} workstation [1]; which has a big selling point of having no ME/PSP processor. But it looks a bit expensive.

[1] http://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/prerelease.php

[wolfgke]

I don't know the plans with TALOS II, but those who are interested in what happened to the original Talos Secure Workstation crowdfunding might be interested in the following article, which I think anybody, who is interested in how an alternative could look like, should read:

> https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...

[em3rgent0rdr]

You can also use C201 arm Chromebook with libreboot (I do) to avoid concerns about a management engine.

[rnhmjoj]

Wasn't the funding for Talos unsuccessful? Are they really going to release it?