What is the most powerful laptop I can buy Q4 2025 running QubesOS?

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I’ve been using qubes extensively in the last 2 years as a daily driver, both for personal and work. It is amazing once you setup it correctly: with autostarts, devilspie2 scripts for automatic workspace window placement, multiple vpn vms, opensitch running in each vm, Archlinux and fedora 42 templates.
Simply the best OS so far, so much stability and power.
I feel like I have complete control of my machine capabilities, but I’m hitting a resource upper limit now.

I have been running QubesOS on a very capable Nitropad 55: 15’’ display ,extended keyboard, 12 cores, 64 gb ram, lots of storage. The machine is perfect and it’s hard to switch but I need better specs now.

I’m about to embark in a additional job that I’ll require me to spin a new capable work environment in parallel with the previous ones.

I have seen that the nitropad v56 can be pushed to 96 gb ram, Intel core 7 ultra 155H with dasharo Heads, 4tb ssd it’s around 3700 €.

I’m wandering if there is any new laptop, like latest Clevo laptops or any other brand that has similar or better performance to price ratio with ease of installation and use of QubesOS.

I’m not particularly interested in gups since I have come to the understanding that I can mount a dedicated gpu to only one HVM vm and that’s it! (correct me if I’m wrong). So, for my coding work isn’t that interesting to have only one capable centralized environment that has gpu capabilities, cpu will do it.

If you have suggestions that would help

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Maybe you should take a look at NovaCustom?

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I believe Nitro and Nova use the same or similar laptops and they both offer the same/similar specifications.

But, if you don’t want a Qubes OS Certified laptop, you can look into this list:

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My best experience with QubesOS was on Asus zenbook with 13900h:

Faster and fully function, even better then certified V56.
Also nice experience was with lenovo thinkpad e14/16.

If you don’t care about coreboot/heads, look for laptop base on amount of cores, prefer not power efficient CPU.
Big size 15/16inch laptops more likely to have 2/3 USB controllers.

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I’ve been using a Lenovo P16 Gen 2 (128GB ECC, i9) for the last year as my everything machine. It’s great if you don’t need suspend (still waiting for S0 support) and are ok with a bulky/heavy chassis. If you need AEM, you’d need to roll your own, but that’s doable.