High-end laptop recommendation

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@renehoj

True, but people are also getting the T430 and X230 recommended, which already have that issue.

You can get the 8th gen i5 or i7 T480 for around $200, if you upgrade it with 32 GB memory and NVMe the total is somewhere around $500, and you have a laptop that is slightly worse than a $2000 librem, if you don’t care about coreboot.

That is indeed a nice price. I just wanted to clarify the EOL issue for users who might not be aware of that. That the T430 and X230 are EOL has already been posted quite a few times in these forums(which is one of the reasons I didn’t buy one), but users might not be aware that 8th gen Intel will probaby end that soon.

@augsch

Generally, if suspend is important for you, then you’d better choose a model with an Intel CPU. Modern AMD mobile CPU (which has intergrated amdgpu) often suffers from suspend/resume instability.

Xen 4.14.5-15 update seems to fix that(now in current/stable repo), at least for some AMD models. For my AMD laptop suspend now works fine, I tried suspend 20 times in a row:

AMD Thinkpad L14 Gen 3 Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U

I forgot to add that built-in audio, trackpoint and touchpad, Windows VM are all working fine as well. Thanks for the report. Which laptop were you previously using? An Elitebook with i5 2520M and 16GB ram. So it is also a huge upgrade, but the performance difference with Qubes is also huge. Hi, could you please suspend more times before doing a reboot, for example, 20 times, to see if suspend and resume is actually working flawlessly? My laptop will eventually fail to resume, if I suspen…