In addition to the three certified laptops and the large hardware compatibility list there is a need for a shorter list of laptops/desktops that are available to be bought and work well with the current Qubes OS release. As a first step, this thread is meant to collect candidates for that list. If …

year of hardware release What is useful about it? How is this MORE useful than listing the CPUs? this table I’m curious to see if it will ever grow beyond the X230 and T430 without changing the criteria.

[image] Sven: beyond the X230 and T430 without changing the criteria W530 AFAIK meets criteria, (and AFAIK you can get Heads onto W530 ‘relatively’ easily - see: Support models without FSP and Intel ME neutered + deactivated · Issue #616 · linuxboot/heads · GitHub ). I’ve not abandoned the thr…

W530 Unfortunately we only have a single HCL report from 2014 for the W530 and it’s for R2rc1. If anyone is actually using a W530 with Qubes OS R4.x it would be greatly appreciated if they could send in fresh HCL reports. It would be quite sweet as it allows for 32 GB on the quad-core CPUs .

[image] Sven: year of hardware release What is useful about it? How is this MORE useful than listing the CPUs? Let us imagine that a non-technical user looks at the list of recommended laptops. The list says gibberish things like i7-3840QM, i7-10710U, i5-7200U etc. (Ok, maybe the user can …

The list says gibberish things like i7-3840QM, i7-10710U, i5-7200U With the exception of the Librem laptops, I believe all the other models come in multiple variants with different CPU. Some of those variants won’t work with Qubes OS. So in order for the list to be useful, we need to call out the…

Thank you for this reminder. As to whether “/all/ relevant things are just better for newer CPUS”, this depends on what better means to you, and what you count as relevant. Obviously. If price is relevant, no. In many situations, if anonymity is relevant, no.

Lenovo ThinkPad T470s with core i7, is working great too

Would you mind sharing the HCL report with us? Do suspend, WiFi work well?

Is getting one of the certified hardware laptops (eg Nitropad) with Qubes pre-installed ok? I’ve heard a few people say it’s better to install a clean version of the OS yourself for maximum safety?

@Ochocinco : Is getting one of the certified hardware laptops (eg Nitropad) with Qubes pre-installed ok? The Qubes OS Project certifies only that a particular hardware configuration is supported by Qubes OS and is available to purchase with Qubes OS preinstalled. We take no responsibility for any…

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