Yea, this is just a Lenovo X200 w/ libreboot. The same old laptop that's been around for years and years, now with a crappy sticker over the windows key!
I assume it hasn't got a hard disk in it as well as they are technically standalone computers with closed source firmware as well these days.
Freedom is expensive.
I'm willing to pay that price for owning something that I know cannot spy on me, does not have remote kill switches I can't control, and is completely serviceable from bottom to top by any third party.
It really is sad that these requirements are now expensive. They used to be taken for granted.
Worth nothing that the ME could be disabled/removed on the GM45; perhaps there are undocumented ways to do this on the newer chipsets too, although Intel would probably consider that a "security vulnerability"...
All options to disable ME (there are a few) on newer devices are totally impractical, if for nothing else, because it disables certain power management capabilities.
If you like to fry eggs on your laptop, that may be the way to go though.