Very nice to finally have a certified Qubes laptop! Personally, for me it would be nice if there was a more powerful alternative in the future. I'm currently using something with about the same resource power and I find myself often wishing I had something faster because Qubes is quite heavy compared to a standard OS. It would be great to have a quad core CPU(and a proper one, not one of those power-saving U line from Intel), 32GB RAM or more and a NVMe SSD instead of SATA. Also, there is the issue of the CPU being a 3rd gen Intel i CPU. Maybe this is specifically chosen because later CPU's are harder to get blob free, I don't know the details. However, Intel had quite a few side channel vulnerabilities over the past year, and this year they dropped microcode update support for 1st gen CPU's, so there is a pretty high chance they will drop 2nd gen support next year and 3rd gen support the year after that.
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