Looking to switch to a ThinkPad from a Librem14 Suggestions welcome

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@thinkpadp1 @Erica.vH Understand you may want Thinkpad
Sorry if off topic but have you looked at Novacustom?

airelemental very helpful post? →

Short list of laptops/desktops that work well with Qubes OS

As far as I know, here are laptops that still get microcode updates (6th gen and later [11]) + have coreboot: Laptop CPU cores ME EC Qubes suspend NovaCustom NS51, NS70 4 x Intel 11th ? ? ? Purism Librem 13v4, 15v4 2 x Intel 7th minimizable [12] ? yes - see HCL Purism Librem 14 6 x Intel 10th factory-disabled FOSS [5] yes [9] Starlabs Mk VI 4+8 x Intel 12th ? ? ? Starlabs Mk V 4 x Intel 11th factory-disabled proprietary [7] yes [8] System76 darp8 4+8 x Intel 12th ? FOSS …

Also

@system

Wessel Klein Snakenborg from Novacustom with a story of open-source on modern laptops as a candidate to Qubes OS certification

Service manual here and https://docs.dasharo.com/variants/novacustom_ns5x_7x/overview/

Just idea. hth