Is there a heavy duty rugged laptop certified by qubes

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I need a heavy duty to support lots of tasks and be rugged.

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Rugged and heavy-duty don’t go in pairs.
Max what I found is Panasonic Thoughbook 40 MK2 with Intel 7 Ultra 165H: 12 cores, 2P+6E+2LPE with base clock respectively 1.7GHz, 1.3GHz and 700 MHz. Turbo is 4.9GHz, 3.8GHz and 2.1GHz but because 15W TDP power throttling will kick instantaneously and you will have no more than 3.8GHz on P+E cores.

Or some specific brand with 12 gen P cpus, like Getac B360 G2. But rugged, because of it’s closed chassis is bad with thermals so thermal throttling is highly possible.
You could go with semi-rugged thou - Dell only (higher possibility of compatibility).

And that’s all aside of Qubes OS compatibility.
You will be probably the first to test such laptop.

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For example this one Dell Latitude 5424 Rugged or Dell Latitude 5420 Rugged

8th gen i7 4 cores integrated or amd, not to powerful but capable of running dozen of qubes simultaneously but not high computing.

Found at Hardware compatibility list (HCL) | Qubes OS

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Nice thanks,

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Highly recommend the laptops from Starlabs (StarBook Mk VII – Free Next Day Delivery – Star Labs®), some of which are even qubes certified, and the ones that are not yet I assume will run it very well. Come with coreboot so you can disable intel ME, set a lof of custom BIOS options like charge limiting, and can do up to 96gb or modern ram.

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[Never mind]

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I need something to last me and be drop resistant. My previous laptop was obliterated by a drop. The dell latitude 5430 or some other kind of rugged is necessary for my job. While the laptops are cool it is not going to last 1 day in my environment.

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sorry totally missed the requirement! I’ve always considered getting disposable laptops to SSH into my main machine, don’t know if that is useful idea.

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Cool but i wouldnt use something like this if i am working on something i use a usb to transfer data.