Thank you for the update! I still don’t understand, why “developer-tested” is relevant, whereas “vendor-tested” isn’t. In both cases, there is no official recommendation/guarantee here, just the community recommendation, right? Don’t they both mean in principle community-tested (given enough HCL reports)?
Also, those “developer-tested” laptops, in my view, (when alone) make unfair advertisement to Lenovo, who multiple times compromised security and privacy of the customers – something against the Qubes values.