“Your next best bet is to go for a Linux laptop from an indie system builder.”

Linux. In the UK there’s http://minifree.org that offers the interesting if aging Libreboot Lenovo X200. It’s certified by the FSF – used no less than by Richard Stallman himself – as being entirely open and free using the Libreboot UEFI and Trisquel distro.

If you’re a die-hard software freedom fanatic, it’s one of the few options on the market that you can buy off the shelf that ticks all the boxes. But you do pay the price somewhat in terms of out and out performance, down to the aging yet competent