Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230

Re:Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230 by whamlastxmas on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @04:21PM (#12491878)

As just a day-to-day computer for software development, how does it work out? Can it run Firefox/Chromium just fine? What sort of issues have you had?

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Re:Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230 by james_a_craig on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:12AM (#12494923)

I've got a couple of Novenas. It's good for development except for web-browsing; for whatever reason firefox and chromium are both pretty sluggish on it. Everything else seems fine; I suspect that it's mostly down to video drivers, which are still somewhat in a state of flux (but getting better).

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Re:Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230 by mwcampbell on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:11AM (#12496470)

I'm skeptical about whether the video drivers are the culprit for poor web browsing performance. Yes, there's WebGL, but do Firefox and Chromium depend that critically on OpenGL for rendering ordinary web pages?

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Re:Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230 by davexunit on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @06:33AM (#12495528)

Yeah, Novena will be much more usable once the etnaviv drivers are ready.

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