So, have gotten this laptop from a friend recently to use as a linux box and i 
instantly thought of qubes, reset the tpm and enabled it and it still has 
issues atm though - as well as the wired ethernet not showing in the sys-net VM 
devices(as far as i can see)- or the yml file - also booted and installed off 
of legacy(non-UEFI) as had not undone my friends settings fully yet - also this 
laptop model doesn't like s3 suspend in linux(although this problem i believe 
is even present in ubuntu) everything else works though afaik - dom0 GL/GLX/DRI 
since its an intel gpu, sound, usb3.0, intel wifi 802.11ac(not tried the 
bluetooth), the mouse is a bit touchy as its a synapics glidepoint multi-touch 
and afaik theres no easy way to set deadzones for "edge" detection or other 
things easily in the gui - i installed the OS on an SSD i put in, in place of 
the SSHD it came with, and replaced the cdrom drive with the SSHD and upgraded 
to 16gb of RAM - so majority is on the SSD, while i use the SSHD for alternate 
storage and vm backups - both encrypted lvm+luks - took a little messing 
arround with fdisk to get the installer to treat the SSHD as lvm instead of a 
normal disk(manually setting up pool and such - as it wouldnt let me specify it 
as an lvm disk without doing this[it was greyd out]) but once i did it gave me 
both my lvmain and lvswap pools on the SSHD - and would then let me reformat 
them and encrypt them - they automount at boot fine, all the vm's appear to be 
functioning normally[even win7 w/ Seamless GUI, and ubuntu hvm's] - with the 
exception of the wired ethernet/weird touchpad - but that may be because iirc, 
this laptop has vPro/IntelME/MEI(it may not, as its an optional feature and 
possibly not part of wlan module included) - also this laptop supports a dock 
with multiple ports the laptop doesnt have - plugged it into it but havent 
tried the ports in my lab yet, will post further updates - the cpu supports all 
the virtualization preferred by Qubes except for iommu(vt-d) isnt supported, 
ill list the intel ark and dell urls below - and should support anti-evil-maid 
as the tpm shows up in modules, just need to get it to activate among other 
things on my to-do list

http://ark.intel.com/products/75459/Intel-Core-i5-4200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_60-GHz
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e5440-laptop/pd
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201307-13941/ (ive noted some 
things it claims didnt work, now do infact work on qubes, like the wifi switch)

PS if you guys want any more debug info just ask

All in all - most of this computer works out of the box if you boot with legacy 
enabled in bios - the rest ill tinker with another day as i have a working 
laptop right now - also updated lvm and initramfs;dracut and luks configs to 
enable TRIM on the SSD - thing has a wicked fast boot on qubes - and the vm's

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