I get where you're coming from, but Purism goes quite a bit deeper than that. The firmware that lives on most of the components that compose the device are open source. Old laptops, etc still have the fatal flaw of being products of closed-source billion dollar corporations that cooperate with government at the drop of a hat. Plus with Purism, you're getting physical kill switches as well which is pretty cool. I haven't seen any other manufacturers touting things like that. We need more competition in this space . . .