HCL - Dell Precision M4700

[sourcexorapprentice]

*Installer r4.0 hung on sys-net step due to a Broadcom BCM* wifi card issue. Installer worked fine and boot as well after tossing the card aside.

Everything else worked great out of the box:

• NVIDIA Quadro K2000M is good with HDMI out fine. Displayport output went up to 2560x1440 (~2 or 2.5K?) without installing NVIDIA drivers (3840x2160 supposedly https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-K2100M.98900.0.html), I didn't test further.
• Camera/mic are good.
• SD cards great.
• Express card slot has worked great with smart cards.
• 3 USB2 ports, 1 USB3 work well.
• TPM/IME were disabled by previous owner, so can't comment.
• 1 large and 2 half mini slots, so you can get crazy wifi.
• Spring-loaded hard drive caddy.
  

This computer is all over eBay in the $200 range in 2019, I have been very pleased with Qubes on it.

Non-Qubes UEFI issues:

The drive caddy is spring loaded under the battery, so it's been nice to be able to immediately switch between Qubes/Windows/Ubuntu/OpenBSD with multiple SSDs. This is a nice alternative to dual booting and allows the primary use of Qubes without abandoning Ubuntu for vmware/virtualbox. However, Windows 10 had been installed with UEFI and completely lost its mind after a couple months of this, completely unrecoverable. After an upgrade to Dell Bios A19 and reinstalling Windows 10 in non-UEFI Legacy mode, there have been no issues for about 4 months now moving back/forth.